ironside (robertfrangie@hotmail.com) wrote on IMDB:
The world was full of all colors during the time leading up to the
Civil War in the South
The cry for freedom was in the air like a rising
wind
Slaves have already gone wild on many plantations but not yet on
Pointe du Loup, Louisiana, where it was still serene
Hamish Bond maintains a plantation outside New Orleans
At the slave
mart he buys a beautiful girl for $5,000
She is the daughter of a
supposedly wealthy Kentucky planter
After her father's death she
discovered he has left her nothing but debts
She also discovered her
mother was a black slave and that, according to the custom of the time,
she is classified of Negro blood and literally sold down the river to
discharge her father's debts
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Amantha Starr is horrified and degraded at the treatment shea
well-bred white girlreceives when she becomes classified as a woman of
mixed race
Hamish doesn't relegate the proud dark-haired woman to slave quarters
but treats her as a lady in his household, where romance develops
Clark Gable plays the New Orleans wealthy gentleman who got a past he'd
like to forget
He knows better than most men that money is no
cure-all
He used to think it was
He used to think it would open the
door to friendship and other essentials more important than power
He
used to believe it was everything: a drug for loneliness, a painkiller
for certain memories, the whole apothecary shop for every problem of
life
He bought the attractive Amantha because she was on the slave block
Somebody else was bound to bid her on
That fellow with laced cuffs
putting his hands on her and he hates lace cuffs
Yvonne de Carlo plays Amantha, the lady of quality with Negro heritage
She didn't go on her way north, nor she jumped the boat at Pointe du
Loup
She has suffered, and she always will, with Hamish or without
him
There always will be the fires, the memories because she loves
him, and because he's the only man she ever loved, or ever will
The young Sidney Poitier plays the rebellious ambitious chief slave
Rau-Ru who gets off the sidewalk for nobody
No constable or paddy roll
ever stopped him
No steamboat captain ever asked to see his pass
Will
he feels lucky enough to deliver his boss to the hangman one day? [ show less ]
Written on IMDB a long time ago.
