Native Son 1950  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Pierre Chenal
Cast: Richard Wright, Jean Wallace, Gloria Madison, Nicholas Joy, Willa Pearl Curtis, Charles Cane, Jean Michael, George Rigaud, George Green, Ruth Robert
Richard Wright, author of the masterful novel and play, stars as Bigger Thomas, a black man who takes a job as chauffeur to a rich white family. Not comprehending the "rules" of the white world, when he accidentally kills their wild daughter, he attempts to hide her body. While on the lam, he kills again. Although Bigger is directly responsible for the killings, is the problem really with what it means to be black in 1930s America?
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