Bright Road (1953)
1h 8m
Running Time
April 17, 1953Release Date
Bright Road (1953)
1h 8m
Running Time
April 17, 1953Release Date
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Plot.
Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.
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Cast & Crew.
Dorothy Dandridge
Jane Richards
Philip Hepburn
C.T. Young
Harry Belafonte
Mr. Williams - School Principal
Barbara Randolph
Tanya Hamilton
Robert Horton
Dr. Mitchell
Maidie Norman
Mrs. Hamilton - Tanya's Mother
Rene Beard
Booker T. Jones
Howard Louis McNeely
Boyd
Robert McNeeley
Lloyd
Fred Moultrie
Roger
Patti Marie Ellis
Rachel Smith
James Moultrie
George
Gerald Mayer
Director
Emmet Lavery
Writer
Mary Elizabeth Vroman
Writer
Sol Baer Fielding
Producer
David Rose
Composer
Alfred Gilks
Cinematographer
Joseph Dervin
Editor
Sydney Guilaroff
Hairstylist
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
William Tuttle
Makeup Artist
A. Arnold Gillespie
Special Effects
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Wiki.
Bright Road is a 1953 low-budget film adapted from the Christopher Award-winning short story "See How They Run" by Mary Elizabeth Vroman. Directed by Gerald Mayer and featuring a nearly all-black cast, the film stars Dorothy Dandridge as an idealistic first-year elementary school teacher trying to communicate with a problem student. The film is also notable as the first appearance by Harry Belafonte, who costars as the principal of the school.