All the Way Home (1957)

★★★★★ · NIMBY Wimpys. · Spuzz · 2005-02-18

Outstanding movie detailing a community's concern about "one of them" moving into their neighborhood. Being that this film was made around 1957, "them" are negros. When the gossips see that a black family is about to move in, they run off into their houses to call The People Who Will Listen to Them about this sudden turn of events, to emphasize this, FURIOUS dialing, with the mike turned up HIGH, is heard. VERY funny. Anyways, soon, the seller of the house is being shunned by the community. He can't see what the fuss is about, and he soon finds out who his true friends are in the community.…

★★★★★ · All the Way Home (Full Film) · Christine Hennig · 2003-06-29

Remember the 50s, folks? Remember what a better, simpler time it was? Remember how people lived in nice safe neighborhoods where it was safe for children to play? Unless, of course, you show the house you are selling to an African-American family. Then tongues will wag, telephone harassment will ensue, and your grandchild will get a can of black paint thrown at her from a moving car. Ah yes, racism. That was a part of the 50s, too. This film about housing discrimination serves as a reminder that it really wasn't so long ago that most white people were sure that the presence of a single black…

★★★★★ · Far Too True · donwert · 2010-07-05

One of the reviewers pretends not to know what the point of this film is. Another claims to have seen neighborhoods deteriorate becuase blacks moved in. The truth is that, in big cities all over the country then and throughout the 60s and 70s, "white flight" was a real phenomenon, aided and abetted by unscrupulous real estate agents---overwhelmingly white--called "blockbusters". They would find a black family, buy a home in an all-white neighborhood, sell the home to the black family, then wait for panic to set in. As whites dumped their homes on the market, these agents would buy them and…

★★★★ · Horror of humanity · Dad_da_Man · 2007-04-14

I know this happened, and to some degree it still does, but to see how this couples long time friends and neighbors treat them just for allowing someone to view their home which is for sale, is shocking to see. The ignorance and fear of those times, even though still echoing today, are hard for me to watch without feeling great anger that anyone would do this.

★★★ · If only... · ERD · 2006-11-22

Unfortunately, neighborhood segregation has not gone away. A lot of the fears expressed in this film by the characters still holds true and has stopped social progress. This didactic script seems realistic at times and then gets idealistic. It is well acted and directed, however.

★★ · What was the point of this film? · Prep2001 · 2006-11-26

Either I missed something, or else the last part of this clip got lost. It ends very abruptly without any resolution of the story. So what was the point? The last thing we see is a bucket of black paint thrown on the For Sale sign and the little girl. Is this film pro-racism or anti-racism? Political correctness aside, I've seen the "white flight" phenomenon four times in my life, and in three of the four cases the neighborhoods in question were converted within 10-20 years from safe, well-maintained places to filthy, crime-ridden hellholes. Is this film warning us to protect "white" (i.e.…