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Checkerboard (1959)

Checkerboard (1959)

Drama

A TOUR OF VIOLENCE... IN BLACK & WHITE!

Release Date: 1959, May 6
Directors: Claude Bernard-Aubert
Countries: France, Italy
Production: Lodice-Zodiaque-Globe, Zodiaque Productions, Globe Films International, Globe Films International, Les Films Fernand Rivers, Les Films Fernand Rivers
Cast: Roger Blin, Grégoire Aslan, Jacques Richard, Toto Bissainthe, Lucien Raimbourg, Douta Seck, Nico Pepe, Milly Vitale, Anne Carrère

Overview:

In a small Gallic village, tourists are regaled by street entertainers and brash prostitutes. One of the tourists, a black girl named Bessie, falls in love with local villager Bob, and he with her. Soon racial tensions erupt volcanically among tourists and townsfolk alike. All is forgiven when the respective parents of the hero and heroine save the village's water supply.