Band of Angels

Band of Angels

1957 · 125 min · EN · 6.1 (36 votes)
Dir. Raoul Walsh · Starring Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Rex Reason, Patric Knowles · Music Max Steiner

You're no blue blood any more, honey. The master bought you...and now he's waitin'!

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Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.

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A sweeping, dramatic tale of a woman's world turned upside down by shocking revelations. It's an intense, melancholic journey through identity and forbidden love against the backdrop of the antebellum South.

melancholicintensedramaticsweepingsteadyhistorical dramaSouthern Gothicepic romanceidentityracesocial injusticeforbidden love
plantationslaveslave tradebiracialsouthern belleamerican civil warslave ownerracial issuesdeep southpassing for whitewoman's story
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