Black Like Me

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Black Like Me ★½ 1964

Based on John Howard Griffin's successful book about how Griffin turned his skin black with a drug and traveled the South to ex perience prejudice firsthand. Neither the production nor the direction enhance the material. 107m/B VHS, DVD . James Whitmore, Roscoe Lee Browne, Will Geer, Walter Mason, John Marriott, Clifton James, Dan Priest; D: Carl Lerner; W: Carl Lerner, Gerda Lerner; C: Victor Lukens, Henry Mueller; M: Meyer Kupferman.

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