A Patch of Blue

A Patch of Blue is a 1965 American drama film directed by Guy Green about the relationship between a black man, Gordon played by Sidney Poitier, and a blind white female teenager, Selina Elizabeth Hartman, and the problems that plague their relationship when they fall in love in a racially divided America. Made in 1965 against the backdrop of the growing civil rights movement, the film explores racism from the perspective of love is blind.

Selina DArcey Elizabeth Hartman is a blind girl living with her prostitute mother RoseAnn Shelley Winters and grandfather Ole Pa Wallace Ford, in a city apartment. She strings beads to supplement her familys small income, and spends most of her time doing chores. Her mother is abusive, and Ole Pa is an alcoholic. Selina has no friends, rarely leaves the apartment, and has never received an education.Selina convinces her employer to bring her to the park, where she happens to meet Gordon Ralfe Sidney Poitier, an educated and softspoken black man working night shifts in an office, and the two quickly become friends. Gordon learns that she was blinded at the age ofwhen RoseAnn threw chemicals on her while attempting to hit her husband, and also that she was raped by one of RoseAnns boyfriends. ........

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