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Title: The original book should be required reading.
Review: The story is interesting and the movie scared me more than Beloved. This managed to convey how frightening it was to be black in America. These people were endangered and overly penalized at every turn. This movie holds up very well. It doesn't look dated the way so many Seventies movies do. The cinematography is clean and precise. The skin tones look great on film. It's hard to imagine what it meant to be a black sharecropper without seeing this movie. I saw this movie on Turner Classic Movies because TCM aired an interview of Cicely Tyson between Jane Russell movies otherwise I would never have watched a 70's movie about a depressing subject. This movie and story rocks. I'm going to pass the word on it.
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