Bright Road

Bright Road

1953 | 1h 8m | Drama | TV-PG

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Brief Synopsis

A fourth-grade teacher knows this will be a year of crisis, but with the help of her principal, she gradually helps her young students realize their potential as she guides them to discover their talents and their own value.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Gerald Mayer

CAST

Dorothy Dandridge

Harry Belafonte

Robert Horton

Philip Hepburn

PRODUCERS

Sol Baer Fielding

WRITERS

Emmet Lavery

Host Intros

06:56
African America Film Critics Association -- Bright Road (1953)
Intro Aired: Sep 2018
Introduction and comments following Bright Road, 1953, with Clayton Davis and Jasmine Simpkins from the African American Film Critics Association.

Related Videos

03:10
Bright Road (1953) -- (Movie Clip) I Walked Right Into That One
Clip
We learn here that new teacher Jane (Dorothy Dandridge) is also the Sunday school teacher, leading a hymn and continuing her internal monologue from the original story by Mary Elizabeth Vroman, getting into trick topics with troubled C.T. (Philip Hepburn), in MGMs Bright Road, 1953, co-starring Harry Belafonte.
04:00
Bright Road (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Suzanne (Ev'ry Night When The Sun Goes Down)
Clip
New teacher Jane (Dorothy Dandridge) struggling with grades, then a heck of a thing to discover about ones principal, Harry Belafonte as Mr. Williams, with the modernized folk song, never a single but a favorite track from his chart-topping second album (Belafonte, 1955), in MGMs Bright Road, 1953.
03:43
Bright Road (1953) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Dorothy Dandridge
Clip
Unorthodox opening from screenwriter Emmet Lavery, working from the original story by African-American schoolteacher and author Mary Elizabeth Vroman, Dorothy Dandridge narrates as herself, introducing co-star Harry Belafonte, ably directed by Gerald Mayer, nephew of the studio boss, in MGMs Bright Road, 1953.
02:40
Bright Road - (Original Trailer)
Trailer
Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child. Starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte.

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