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Native Son, also known as Sangre negra (in Spanish: "Black Blood"), is a 1951 Argentine black-and-white drama film directed by French filmmaker Pierre Chenal. It is based on the novel Native Son by American author Richard Wright, who also stars in the film and co-wrote the screenplay with Chenal.
With Richard Wright, Jean Wallace, Gloria Madison, Nicholas Joy. In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
- (500)
- Drama, Film-Noir
- Pierre Chenal
- 1951-03-02
Richard Wrights legendary novel is at once an American classic and an incisive examination of what it means to be black in America. The writer himself stars in this superlative adaptation of his ...
- 108 min
- 35K
- Black Introvert
Country. Argentina and United States. Location. Buenos Aires,Argentina; Chicago, Illinois, United States. Screenplay Information. Based on the novel Native Son by Richard Wright (New York, 1940).
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.
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Set in the early 1940s in Chicago's "black belt," where nearly half a million African Americans are crowded in, Hannah Thomas (Willa Pearl Curtis) lives in a small kitchenette with her three children, Vera, Buddy and her oldest, 25-year-old Bigger (Richard Wright), having left the South twelve years earlier following the lynching of her husband.
