One Potato, Two Potato
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 15, 2021
- Originally Released: 1964
- Label: Scorpion Records
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Barbara Barrie & Bernie Hamilton | |
Performer: | Richard Mulligan, Harry Bellaver & Robert Earl Jones | |
Directed by | Larry Peerce | |
Edited by | Robert Fritch | |
Screenplay by | Orville H. Hampton & Raphael Hayes | |
Composition by | Gerald Fried | |
Produced by | Anthony Spinelli | |
Director of Photography: | Andrew Laszlo |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B+ --
Packs a powerful lesson on racism.
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Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Both husband and wife are shrewdly observed characters in a film untainted by sentimentality, a quality that American films about race, then and now, fall back on.
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Village Voice
They have constructed a film to make a point, and, even if that is obvious throughout the film, it was worth making and it is worth seeing.
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Vogue
It is pleasantly shocking to watch the very real face of Barbara Barrie with its slightly off-centre prettiness and terrifying vulnerability. And the Negro in-laws (Robert Earle Jones and Vinette Carroll) have an authenticity that speaks for itself.
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Maclean's Magazine
It is a film which should be seen. Perhaps cheered.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Product Description:
Filmed in Ohio, ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO was a "critic's darling" film of 1964 dealing with the then-daring topic of miscegenation. White Barbara Barrie divorces her husband Richard Mulligan, then falls in love with and marries African-American Bernie Hamilton. When the ex-husband sues for custody of Barbara's child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the girl, Hamilton fights for his parental rights in court. But the judge is driven by the prejudices of the era, and the child goes back to its natural father. At the time of its release, ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO was praised beyond all proportion for its realistic and progressive dissection of race relations. Only a few renegade critics like Judith Crist dared to note that sociologically, the film was still mired in the patronizing PINKY era. Instead of concentrating on the injustices heaped upon black Bernie Hamilton, the film's sympathies are almost totally directed towards poor, put-upon, snow-white Barbara Barrie.