Bright Road
1953 film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bright Road is a 1953 low-budget film adapted from the Christopher Award-winning short story "See How They Run" by Mary Elizabeth Vroman. Directed by Gerald Mayer and featuring a nearly all-black cast, the film stars Dorothy Dandridge as an idealistic first-year elementary school teacher trying to communicate with a problem student. The film is also notable as the first appearance by Harry Belafonte, who costars as the principal of the school.
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Bright Road | |
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Directed by | Gerald Mayer |
Screenplay by | Emmet Lavery |
Based on | "See How They Run" 1951 short story Ladies' Home Journal by Mary Elizabeth Vroman |
Starring | Dorothy Dandridge Philip Hepburn Harry Belafonte Barbara Ann Sanders |
Cinematography | Alfred Gilks |
Edited by | Joseph Dervin |
Music by | David Rose |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 69 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $377,000[1] |
Box office | $252,000[1] |
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