FILM ARCHIVES Odds Against Tomorrow
by Jim Hoberman
Dir. Robert Wise (1959).
This character-driven caper film—directed by Robert Wise and produced by its star, Harry Belafonte, has an unusual, and strikingly pessimistic, racial angle, particularly for 1959. Turns out that the script was written by blacklisted Abraham Polonsky with black novelist John O. Killens as his front.
Wed., Aug. 17, 1, 4:45 & 8:30 p.m., 2011