Synopsis
A drama about the hiring of the first African American white-collar worker at a manufacturing plant. Managers argue over the hire as government contracts require non-discrimination, white secretaries threaten to quit, and the new employee confides her fears to her family before facing her coworkers in the cafeteria.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 30 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Richard Nixon: King of all black people. · Spuzz · 2013-08-26
Pretty good docudrama for it's day about an office just about to hire it's first black woman for a secretary, and the ramifications it has in the office. It was quite surprising seeing the credit list and finding out that Ed Asner and Ford Rainey were in the production somewhere. The acting ranges from Very good to shaky, and the script sometimes can't veer above soap opera level. (The discussion which the new girl has with her family is pretty bad, as both actors seem to have arrived from a road production of 'Lilies Of The Field'. All in all, an 'important' film I'm sure for it's time, but…