Rating of
3.5/4
Indyfreak - wrote on 11/20/20
Excellently written message movie that's remarkably ahead of the curve with its depiction of racism and the notion of passing for white during the Jim Crow era. Jeanne Crain plays Pinky Johnson, a woman of color who's passed herself for white outside of her backwoods community in the Deep South. Crain is very good as someone constantly frustrated by the very wrong social standards of her day and trying to get out of it. Ethel Waters is equally good as her good-natured grandmother.
