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Directors: John Cassavetes Actors:
Ben Carruthers Lelia Goldoni Hugh Hurd Anthony Ray Dennis Sallas Tom Reese David Pokitillow

Shadows 1959

87 minutes

'A film not to be missed.'

The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.

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