Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Kino Lorber, 1951
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Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 108 min.)) : sd., col
ISBN/ISSN
MWT17616049, 17616049
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Directed by Pierre Chenal
Gloria Madison, Charles Cane, Willa Pearl Curtis, Richard Wright, Jean Wallace, Nicholas Joy
One of the most controversial novels of its day, Richard Wright's Native Son (first published in 1940) exposed the injustices of urban African-American life, witnessed through the eyes of Bigger Thomas, whose violent tendencies and moral confusion were the natural result of a lifetime of deprivation. In prison for murder and sentenced to death, Thomas reflects on the circumstances that led to his fate
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Mode of access: World Wide Web