A Patch of Blue

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Time Out says

Shelley Winters won an Oscar for being perfectly horrible as the harridan mom in this dated, but not too sentimental fable in which blind daughter Hartman is brought out of her shell and given a sense of self-worth by her burgeoning friendship with Poitier, unaware throughout that he's a black man. In hindsight, it all looks like a rather tentative Hollywood essay at the race angle, but the actors do mesh together convincingly despite the obvious narrative contrivances, and debut girl Hartman's persuasive account of the everyday travails of the sightless is engrossing without overdoing the self-pity. That, unfortunately, is left to Jerry Goldsmith's insistently 'sensitive' score, plaintive woodwinds to the fore.

Author: TJ

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Release details

UK release:

1965

Duration:

105 mins

Cast and crew

Director:

Guy Green

Cast:

Wallace Ford, Elizabeth Hartman, Shelley Winters, Sidney Poitier, Ivan Dixon

Music:

Jerry Goldsmith

Art Director:

Urie McCleary, George W Davis

Editor:

Rita Roland

Cinematography:

Robert Burks

Screenwriter:

Guy Green

Producer:

Pandro S Berman

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Rated as: 5/5 (2 ratings)

  • I saw (listened) to this movie in descriptive video, a system by which blind people can "watch" a movie, and I thought it was exceptional. I thought Elisabeth Hartman got it right with her performance of a young sheltered blind woman. I will certainly promote it within the blind community.

    Bill Ulmer Fri Mar 11 2011
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  • I agree with Bill it is a forgotten classic moving and powerful in it's simplicity. It is just a great story about two people and the challenges both external and internal that can stand in the way of true love.

    kristal Sat Mar 14 2009
    Rated as: 5/5
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  • This is a forgotten classic. black and white film revolving around the relationship between a black man and a blind teenage girl. exceptional perfomances by hartman and winters. a powerful story of true love. i read a lot of reviews of this film that soley concentrate on the race issues. there is far more going on than that in this fine classic film.

    bill Thu Mar 12 2009
    Rated as: 5/5
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