Tamango

Tamango is a 1958 FrenchItalian film directed by John Berry, a blacklisted American director who exiled himself to Europe. Dorothy Dandridge and Curd Jrgens billed as Curt Jurgens star in the film with costars Alex Cressan and Jean Servais. Based on the short story by Prosper Mrime first published in 1829, the film is about a slave ship on its crossing from Africa to Cuba, the various people it carries and the slaves rebellion while on board.

The film was controversial in different parts of the world. Even though the project was filmed in the French city Nice, France banned Tamango in its West African colonies for fear it would cause dissent among the natives. The film was released in 1959 in New York City, but didnt receive nationwide distribution until 1962. The United States government had banned Tamango because it broke the racemixing or miscegenation section of the Hays Code with the interracial love scenes between Dorothy Dandridge and Curd Jrgens.

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