Take a Giant Step

From Playground to hunting ground - in a bar!

Take a Giant Step (1959)

Drama

This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black high-school student living in a middle-class white neighborhood in the late '50s.

Director: Philip Leacock
Writers: Julius J. Epstein, Louis S. Peterson.

Release Date: 1959-12-01
Status: Released
Run time: 100 min / 1:40
Budget: $300,000
Production Company : Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions
Production Country: United States of America

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Casts

Johnny Nash
Spencer Scott
Estelle Hemsley
Grandmother Martin
Ruby Dee
Christine
Frederick O'Neal
Lem Scott
Beah Richards
May Scott
Ellen Holly
The Girl in the Bar
Paulene Myers
Violet
Royce Wallace
Rose Thompson
Frances Foster
Poppy
Roy Glenn
Minister
Dee Pollock
Tony
Bill Walker
Frank
Bernie Hamilton
Bar Sharpie
Delmar Erickson
Bobby
Sherman Raskin
Alan

Crew

Writing Julius J. Epstein Screenplay
Production Julius J. Epstein Producer
Art Edward Carrere Art Direction
Art Russell A. Gausman Set Decoration
Editing Frank Gross Editor
Art Oliver Emert Set Decoration
Directing Philip Leacock Director
Camera Arthur E. Arling Director of Photography
Sound Jack Marshall Original Music Composer
Writing Louis S. Peterson Screenplay
Writing Louis S. Peterson Theatre Play

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