Native Son (1951)

Directors

Pierre Chenal

Cast

Richard Wright, Willa Pearl Curtis, Gloria Madison, Lidia Alves

The story

A young black man, Bigger Thomas, is hired as a chauffeur for a progressive, affluent white family living in Chicago in the early 1940s. That evening, he drives their teenage daughter Mary into town to meet left-wing sympathizers. Their attempts to befriend Bigger are baffling to him because no white person has ever been kind to him and reflect how oblivious they are to the reactions of the black man.

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