Academy Awards, USA 1966
| Won Oscar | Best Actress in a Supporting Role Shelley Winters |
| Nominated Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role Elizabeth Hartman |
| Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Robert Burks | |
| Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White George W. Davis Urie McCleary Henry Grace Charles S. Thompson | |
| Best Music, Score - Substantially Original Jerry Goldsmith |
MGM
Directed by Guy Green
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Bros)
A naive, blind teenager, sheltered from the world by her overbearing mother, befriends a man in the park. He takes pity on her situation and is determined to help her gain independence. She falls in love with him, not realizing he is an older black man. The situation explodes when her mother finds out what is happening. Sensitive drama based on a complex, but believable, situation is extremely well acted, but melodramatics tend to overwhelm the other, more interesting, theme of race in the turbulent mid 1960s. Shelley Winters garnered an Oscar for her thankless role as the mother, but Hartman and Poitier are just as good.
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