Take a Giant Step (1959)
From Playground to hunting ground - in a bar!
100 min
After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with a teacher, he turns to his grandmother for advice. Spence, who lives in a genteel white area and has mostly white friends, feels like an outsider. He visits a bar in a black neighborhood, where he meets a few prostitutes, which doesn't help. Eventually, Spence starts a friendship with the housekeeper, Christine, who tells him her own difficult story.
- Release date
- December 1, 1959
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $300,000
Cast
- Johnny Nash as Spence Scott
- Estelle Hemsley as Gram Martin
- Ruby Dee as Christine
- Frederick O'Neal as Lem Scott
- Beah Richards as May Scott
- Ellen Holly as The Girl in the Bar
- Paulene Myers as Violet
- Frances Foster as Poppy
- Royce Wallace as Rose Thompson
- Sherman Raskin as Alan
Crew
- Philip Leacock · Director
- Louis S. Peterson · Writer
- Julius J. Epstein · Writer
- Julius J. Epstein · Producer
- Jack Marshall · Composer
- Arthur E. Arling · Cinematographer