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Take a Giant Step is a 1959 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Philip Leacock. The plot concerns a black teenager living in a predominantly white environment and having trouble coping as he reaches an age at which the realities of racism are beginning to affect his life more directly and pointedly than they had in his childhood.
Take a Giant Step: Directed by Philip Leacock. With Johnny Nash, Estelle Hemsley, Ruby Dee, Frederick O'Neal. A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S.
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- Drama
- Philip Leacock
- 1959-12-01
Take a Giant Step (1959) is a well-intentioned coming-of-age drama that was a product of its socially conscious period in American history, right on the cusp of the turbulent sixties.
- Philip Leacock, Philip Bowles, Ray Decamp
- Johnny Nash
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Take a Giant Step - Full Cast & Crew. A coming-of-age drama about a black teenager struggling to find his way in a predominantly white town. After being expelled from school, he wanders...
A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War emphasized in his history class, he storms out and gets caught smoking a cigar in the boys' room.
