Synopsis
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
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Cast
- Sidney PoitierGordon Ralfe
- Shelley WintersRose-Ann D'Arcey
- Elizabeth HartmanSelina D'Arcey
- Wallace FordOle Pa
- Ivan DixonMark Ralfe
- Elisabeth FraserSadie
- John QualenMr. Faber
- Kelly FlynnYanek Faber
- Debi StormSelina, Age 5
- Renata VanniMrs. Favaloro
Recommendations
- 90
Variety
Film has very good scripting plus excellent direction and performances, including an exceptional screen debut by Elizabeth Hartman as the gal. - 88
The Seattle Times
Moving 1965 love story with the late Elizabeth Hartman giving an excellent performance as a tormented blind girl who falls in love with the only person who treats her kindly (Sidney Poiter). It was Hartman's debut, and she and director Guy Green succeed in keeping it from becoming overly sentimental. [23 Aug 1990, p.F5] - 75
TV Guide Magazine
This moving story neatly avoids melodrama. - 70
Time Out
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. - 60
Chicago Reader
Shelley Winters won an Oscar for being her own unbearable self (as Hartman's nagging mother) and Guy Green (The Magus) directed with eyes on the noble Kleenex box and visions of Stanley Kramer running through his noggin.
