Title: Surreal South
Product review: I could not suspend my disbelief long enough to watch the entire movie, and reading the reviews here, I'm glad I didn't. Yes, I agree that the plot made me feel icky. Watching "black" Yvonne De Carlo writhe around on a bed with her blouse pulled down off her shoulders, complaining about Clark Gable buying her. Watching Clark Gable, who seems tired, perhaps embarassed? to be in this movie. I agree that Sidney Poitier is quite good, except when he is singing a ridiculous sea chanty in a voice clearly not his own. And yes, this movie romanticizes slavery. Yes, I know the Romans owned blue-eyed blonde haired slaves. Yes, I know perhaps one in 10,000 African Americans owned slaves. But slavery as practiced in the South was, by and large, incredibly inhumane and degrading to all involved. Meditate on selling your own child, as was often done. This movie isn't about slavery. It's about Hollywood's (read: white person's) idea of slavery.
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