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Sidney Poitier
Director, Actor
Films to Rent on DVD
Blackboard Jungle, The (1955)- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Glenn Ford, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow - Famously controversial on release and first of the 'Rock–n–roll' films, this lifted the lid on the heated youth tensions in 50s America.…
Defiant Ones, The (1958)- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier - That well known image of race–hatred – escaped black and white prisoners unwillingly handcuffed together – originated here, with…
Raisin in the Sun (1961)- Dir. Daniel Petrie
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee… - Rounded drama about the struggles of black family living in Chicago in the 1940s, that was ground–breaking in its day and features several…
Paris Blues (1961)- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Joanne Woodward… - Undernourished romantic drama has Newman and Poitier asJazz musicians on holiday in Paris forced to decide whether to stay or return to the U.S. for…
Long Ships, The (1963)- Dir. Jack Cardiff
Feat. Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn - Expensively produced Viking epic has the Nordic warrior Widmark clash with Moorish general Poitier over a mythical treasure, the 'Golden Bell of St…
Bedford Incident, The (1965)- Dir. James B. Harris
Feat. Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier - Excellent Cold war navy thriller in which an US captain (Richard Widmark) treads the nuclear tightrope in obsessive pursuit of a Russian sub.
Duel at Diablo (1965)- Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Sidney Poitier, James Garner - Violent, off–beat Cowboys–and–Indians conflict successfully revives the formula. With Sidney Poitier, and James Garner in a sober…
Patch of Blue, A (1965)- Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman - Near flawless film about the friendship between a blind, uneducated girl and a black man she meets in the park, who becomes determined to help her…
To Sir with Love (1966)
- Dir. James Clavell
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Lulu - Sidney Poitier instructs a class of cheeky, wayward teenagers in this feel–good classic of British cinema.
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger - Oscar winning thriller starring Sidney Poitier as an urban black detective brought in to investigate a murder in a racist southern town. Rod Steiger…
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