True Love Knows No Color
Added 4/12/2009
Selina D'Arcy(Elizabeth Hartmann)is blind; but, she meets a kindley man(Sidney Poitier) and begins to see the world anew. He, so to speak, takes her under his wing and even shows her how to dial a telephone; however, the problem is that she is white and her mentor is black. Selina has been raised by a very abusive, bitter mother(Shelley Winters) who ,naturally, can see and knows that this man is black and is dead set against her daughter having anything to do with him. As the story developes, you will be impressed with the sterling performances of the actors and expierence the heart pounding climax of this fine film.
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Time Has Not Diminished This Movie
Added 3/31/2009
It is amazing that although this movie was made in the 60s, its appeal is as strong as ever. It is the alternately touching and triumphant story of a 18 year old girl, Selina, blinded accidentally by her mother at the age of five. Her daily existence consists of life in a dreary, run-down apartment with her over-bearing, abusive mother and maternal grandfather. While both parental figures are anything but an upstanding example of people of character, her grandfather does possess a degree of compassion towards her. Selina has managed without benefit of any formal education to emerge as a character of warmth, who like all of us really longs simply to love and be loved. One day she meets an older, professional man Gordon who opens Selina's eyes (figuratively speaking) to an existence beyond the one that she has known all of her life. There are complications (it's the 60s) because she is white and he is black. I don't want to spoil it for you. Truly an amazing, heart-wrenching movie that will leave you rooting for them both. A must see!
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Incredible movie, saw it in 1972 and again in 2009!
Added 2/14/2009
I saw this incredibly good movie in 1972 and bought it for my 12 year old son in 2009. It just took his breath away. He said it was "Too good." This is a keeper for always. The main character (Gordon) movingly respects Selina despite her lack of worldly knowledge. Selina copes with an untenable situation with remarkable resiliency. The ending is delightful.
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Beautiful, Sad Film
Added 2/11/2009
It is February, Black History Month, which means tons of Sidney Poitier films on TMC! I love this movie. Selena is a blind girl, raised by her trashy mother and alcoholic grandfather, who lives a sequestered life in their tiny apartment. She strings beads for a kindly man who occasionally walks her to the park, where she sits under a tree until her grandfather remembers to pick her up at the end of the day. Watching her struggles is heartbreaking. She so longs to be outside that she doesn't drink anything all day so she won't be stuck having to go to the bathroom. Completely disoriented in any setting outside of her apartment, she is tethered to her tree. One evening, her grandfather leaves her in the park late into the evening while he is off drinking and she gets caught in a terrible rainstorm. Still, she persists on going to the park whenever she gets a chance. Her first day in the park, an insect falls down the back of her shirt. She screams and the strikingly handsome Sidney Poitier arrives to help her. An unlikely relationship follows. He is an educated black man doing very well for himself in the mid 1960's while she is a naive, uneducated low-class blind white girl. He keeps his ethnicity a secret, and she frets he will find out what kind of family she comes from. Even though their affection for each other is "blind," the question is: can that blindness overcome the realities of their day to day existences? This is a wonderful film, with a sweet, heartwrenching soundtrack, superb acting, and a bittersweet ending. Highly highly recommended.
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Cookie cutter
Added 11/12/2008
There is predictability to a great majority of Poitier's films. This film turned out to be just what I thought it would be. Wouldn't it be great if the world was color blind? Yes. I just think this film and even perhaps the story the film was based off on was trying too hard. There's no real character arches for the characters. They are the same people in the beginning of the film as in the end. So just the situation changes-Selina leaves her crazy guardians and goes to school. There were opportunities to go deeper and to take more risks-but this film, IMHO, played it safe (or safer) despite the controversial kiss and therefore didn't touch me as much as it could have.
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True Love Knows No Color
Added 4/12/2009
Selina D'Arcy(Elizabeth Hartmann)is blind; but, she meets a kindley man(Sidney Poitier) and begins to see the world anew. He, so to speak, takes her under his wing and even shows her how to dial a telephone; however, the problem is that she is white and her mentor is black. Selina has been raised by a very abusive, bitter mother(Shelley Winters) who ,naturally, can see and knows that this man is black and is dead set against her daughter having anything to do with him. As the story developes, you will be impressed with the sterling performances of the actors and expierence the heart pounding climax of this fine film.
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Time Has Not Diminished This Movie
Added 3/31/2009
It is amazing that although this movie was made in the 60s, its appeal is as strong as ever. It is the alternately touching and triumphant story of a 18 year old girl, Selina, blinded accidentally by her mother at the age of five. Her daily existence consists of life in a dreary, run-down apartment with her over-bearing, abusive mother and maternal grandfather. While both parental figures are anything but an upstanding example of people of character, her grandfather does possess a degree of compassion towards her. Selina has managed without benefit of any formal education to emerge as a character of warmth, who like all of us really longs simply to love and be loved. One day she meets an older, professional man Gordon who opens Selina's eyes (figuratively speaking) to an existence beyond the one that she has known all of her life. There are complications (it's the 60s) because she is white and he is black. I don't want to spoil it for you. Truly an amazing, heart-wrenching movie that will leave you rooting for them both. A must see!
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Incredible movie, saw it in 1972 and again in 2009!
Added 2/14/2009
I saw this incredibly good movie in 1972 and bought it for my 12 year old son in 2009. It just took his breath away. He said it was "Too good." This is a keeper for always. The main character (Gordon) movingly respects Selina despite her lack of worldly knowledge. Selina copes with an untenable situation with remarkable resiliency. The ending is delightful.
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