A patch of blue
(2009, original release: 1965)

Fiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/DRAMA/PATCH

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/DRAMA/PATCH Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2009]
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
1419845128 (set) 1000018901, 9781419845123 (set) 3000018335, 085391116943 3000018333, 012569795549
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from container

Selena D'Arcy is accidentally blinded by her prostitute mother, Rose-Ann, at the age of five. For the next 13 years she is confined in the tiny Los Angeles apartment that they share with her grandfather. One afternoon at the local park, Selena meets Gordon Ralfe, an office worker whose kind treatment of her results in her falling in love with him, unaware that he is black. They continue to meet in the park every afternoon and he teaches her how to get along in the city. But when Rose-Ann learns of their relationship, she forbids Selena from having anything more to do with him. Selena continues to meet Gordon despite Rose-Ann's fury

Based on "Be ready with bells and drums" by Elizabeth Kata

Originally released as a motion picture in 1965

Special features: Commentary by director Guy Green; stills gallery; "Sidney Poitier: the legacy" essay; awards notes

Music, Jerry Goldsmith

Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman

Not rated

DVD, widescreen (letterbox, enhanced); Dolby Digital mono

English or dubbed French dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

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