On Promised Land (TV)
Director: Joan Tewkesbury
Cast: Bill Coates, Carl Lumbly, Carol Mitchell-Leon, Elizabeth Omilami, Joan Plowright, John Jackson, Juanita Jennings, Judith Ivey, Ken Sagoes, Norman D. Golden II, Norman Golden II, Patty Mack, Rhoda Griffis, Robert Benedetti, Tom Nowicki, Wayne Brady
Synopsis:
Cast: Bill Coates, Carl Lumbly, Carol Mitchell-Leon, Elizabeth Omilami, Joan Plowright, John Jackson, Juanita Jennings, Judith Ivey, Ken Sagoes, Norman D. Golden II, Norman Golden II, Patty Mack, Rhoda Griffis, Robert Benedetti, Tom Nowicki, Wayne Brady
Synopsis:
Wealthy and white, the Appletrees are secure in their station in 1950s Georgia. Mrs. Appletree (Joan Plowright) is the paragon of Southern womanhood, while her son Albert (John M. Jackson) owns a prosperous lumberyard. Others are less fortunate. The civil rights movement may be afoot, but little change can be felt in lives of the Appletrees’ black workers. But old values are challenged when Mrs. Appletree befriends one of her laborer’s sons, Jimmy (Norman D. Golden II).
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