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| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: December 10, 1965 |
Starring:
Debi Storm, Elisabeth Fraser, Elizabeth Hartman, Ivan Dixon, John Qualen, Kelly Flynn, Renata Vanni, Shelley Winters, Sidney Poitier, Wallace Ford
Summary:
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.
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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]
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.
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Aug 21, 2021
With smart direction, brilliant acting, emotional music score, and conscious writing, "A Patch of Blue" delivers a radical message for the 1960's and it's a message that sadly shouldn't need to be said in the first place.
This film is an easy wholehearted recommendation.
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