Band of Angels
1957
Drama / Western
Band of Angels
1957
Drama / Western
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Plot summary
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.
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Movie Reviews
It's not meant to be a GWTW
The story of a woman who denies her own people in turbulent time
The world was full of all colors during the time leading up to the Civil War in the South
The cry for freedom was in the air like a rising wind
Slaves have already gone wild on many plantations but not yet on Pointe du Loup, Louisiana, where it was still serene
Hamish Bond maintains a plantation outside New Orleans
At the slave mart he buys a beautiful girl for $5,000
She is the daughter of a supposedly wealthy Kentucky planter
After her father's death she discovered he has left her nothing but debts
She also discovered her mother was a black slave and that, according to the custom of the time, she is classified of Negro blood and literally sold down the river to discharge her father's debts
Amantha Starr is horrified and degraded at the treatment shea well-bred white girlreceives when she becomes classified as a woman of mixed race
Hamish doesn't relegate the proud dark-haired woman to slave quarters but treats her as a lady in his household, where romance develops
Clark Gable plays the New Orleans wealthy gentleman who got a past he'd like to forget
He knows better than most men that money is no cure-all
He used to think it was
He used to think it would open the door to friendship and other essentials more important than power
He used to believe it was everything: a drug for loneliness, a painkiller for certain memories, the whole apothecary shop for every problem of life
He bought the attractive Amantha because she was on the slave block
Somebody else was bound to bid her on
That fellow with laced cuffs putting his hands on her and he hates lace cuffs
Yvonne de Carlo plays Amantha, the lady of quality with Negro heritage
She didn't go on her way north, nor she jumped the boat at Pointe du Loup
She has suffered, and she always will, with Hamish or without him
There always will be the fires, the memories because she loves him, and because he's the only man she ever loved, or ever will
The young Sidney Poitier plays the rebellious ambitious chief slave Rau-Ru who gets off the sidewalk for nobody
No constable or paddy roll ever stopped him
No steamboat captain ever asked to see his pass
Will he feels lucky enough to deliver his boss to the hangman one day?