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Cry, The Beloved Country

1951, Movie, NR, 105 mins

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Made in South Africa and London, this film version of Alan Paton's best-seller was released two years after the tale had come to the stage as "Lost in the Stars." Lee is a decent man of the cloth who comes from the hinterlands to Johannesburg to find his son and sister, both of whom now live in a dank, rat-infested slum. Lee's son, Ngakane, has already been changed enough by life in the city to have killed a white man during a robbery. Ironically, the dead man was the son of... read more leave a comment
Year: 1951
Rated NR

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Cast
Canada Lee: Stephen Kumalo
Charles Carson: James Jarvis
Sidney Poitier: Rev. Maimangu
Joyce Carey: Margaret Jarvis
Edric Connor: John Kumalo
Geoffrey Keen: Father Vincent

 

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