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Shadows

Shadows

1958, Movie, 1h 27min

John Cassavetes’s directorial debut revolves around a romance in New York City between Lelia (Lelia Goldoni), a light- skinned black woman, and Tony (Anthony Ray), a white man. The relationship is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh (Hugh Hurd), and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was. Shot on location in Manhattan with a mostly nonprofessional cast and crew, SHADOWS is a penetrating work that is widely considered the forerunner of the American independent film movement.

Country: United States

Director:

John Cassavetes

Cast:

John Cassavetes,

Seymour Cassel,

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Critic William Thomas

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8

...more like a precursor to 'Mean Streets' than the intense family dramas which Cassavetes came to specialise in.

Read full review at Empire

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Shadows include To Kill a Mockingbird, 12 Angry Men, The 400 Blows, I Live in Fear, Uncle Hyacynth, Nightmare in Red China.

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Shadows was released in theaters on March 21, 1961.