Black Like Me (film)

Black Like Me
Directed by	Carl Lerner
Produced by	Julius Tannenbaum
Screenplay by	Carl Lerner Gerda Lerner Paul Green (uncredited)
Based on	Black Like Me  by John Howard Griffin
Starring	James Whitmore
Music by	Meyer Kupferman
Cinematography	Victor Lukens Henry Mueller II
Editing by	Lora Hays
Studio	The Hilltop Company
Distributed by	Continental Distributing
Release date(s)	May 20, 1964 (1964-05-20)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English Latin

Black Like Me is a 1964 American drama film co-written (with Gerda Lerner) and directed by Carl Lerner, based on the book of the same name. The film stars James Whitmore, Sorrell Booke, and Roscoe Lee Browne.

The DVD was released December 11, 2012 in North America from Video Services Corp. The DVD also includes a documentary (Uncommon Vision) on John Howard Griffin's life.

Plot

John Finley Horton (James Whitmore) is a White American journalist who artificially darkens his skin and passes for a black man in the deep South, from New Orleans to Atlanta, where he encounters a great deal of racism from both white and black people.

Cast

• James Whitmore as John Finley Horton (Black Like Me author John Howard Griffin)
• Sorrell Booke as Dr. Jackson
• Roscoe Lee Browne as Christopher
• Al Freeman, Jr. as Thomas Newcomb
• Will Geer as Truck driver
• Robert Gerringer as Ed Saunders
• Clifton James as Eli Carr
• John Marriott as Hodges
• Thelma Oliver as Georgie
• Lenka Petersen as Lucy Horton
• P.J. Sidney as Frank Newcomb
• Billie Allen as Vertell
• Alan Bergmann as Charles Maynard

External links

• Black Like Me at the Internet Movie Database
• Black Like Me at AllRovi
• Black Like Me at Rotten Tomatoes