Shopping Girl - Separate But Equal [VHS]

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Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster, Richard Kiley, Cleavon Little, Gloria Foster
Directed By: George Stevens Jr.

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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302180893
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 6302180899
Label: Republic Pictures
Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Republic Pictures
Release Date: 1996-01-16
Running Time: 186
Studio: Republic Pictures

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Editorial Reviews:

One of the most pivotal moments in 20th century American history is bracingly dramatized in Separate but Equal. In telling the detailed story of the Supreme Court's 1953 decision to abolish racial segregation in schools, this superb 1991 TV movie covers a broad spectrum of issues, never taking its "eyes off the prize" while its first-rate cast conveys the importance of the Supreme Court's ultimately unanimous decision. It was the culmination of a lengthy, legally complex, and morally compelling struggle that began humbly in South Carolina in 1950, where future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (Sidney Poitier)--then a New York-based lawyer for the NAACP--fought on behalf of an underprivileged black community facing social injustice despite the 1896 decision (Plessy v. Ferguson) that promised "separate but equal" treatment in the wake of slavery's abolition. Both direction and script by George Stevens Jr. are utterly conventional, but with so much dignity and fine acting in the service of a noble undertaking (including Burt Lancaster's final performance, as opposing counsel John W. Davis), Separate but Equal achieves a lasting importance of its own. --Jeff Shannon