Directed by Gordon Parks
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Black teenager Kyle Johnson grows up in a small 1920s Kansas town. Racism is rampant among the police, school system and general population. Friends and acquaintances are routinely harassed, intimidated and even murdered. One day he witnesses the killing of a white farmer by a black man. Initially afraid to tell what he knows, his conscious gets the better of him and he ends up testifying in the ensuing trial. Gordon Parks' autobiographical story is wildly uneven: there is a tornado, a rape and pregnancy, first love, fist fights, a freak show, a whorehouse, and more. It occasionally hits the mark, particularly during the court trial, but more often than is episodic and melodramatic.
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