One Potato, Two Potato

  • Barbara Barrie: Julie Cullen Richards
  • Bernie Hamilton: Frank Richards
  • Richard Mulligan: Joe Cullen
  • Harry Bellaver: Judge Powell
  • Marti Měřička: Mary Ellen
  • Robert Earl Jones: William Richards
  • Vinnette Carroll: Martha Richards
  • Sam Weston: Harry Hruska
  • Faith Burwell: Ann Hruska
  • Jack Stamberger: The Minister
  • Michael Shane: Jordan Hollis

Do not call too loud (Original Title: One Potato, Two Potato ) is an American film director Larry Peerce drama of from the year 1964.

Action

The young mother Julie is left in the early 1960s by her husband, who moved to South Africa. After her divorce, she works in an office, where she fell in love with the African American office worker Frank. As both marry them coming from all sides rejection of received - the parents of Frank, his father especially, reject the white from Julie and Julie's family is hostile to marriage. The situation escalates dramatically as Julie's ex- husband returns and wants erstreiten custody of their daughter. He argues in court that the child's welfare is threatened by the connection to an African- American. While Frank and Julie fight in racially oriented environment to parental rights, but the judge follows the presentation by ex-husband and speaks the daughter to the father.

Background

The film was shot entirely in the city of Painesville in Northeast Ohio.

Reception

"Despite sentimental slip and conventional style, a film that impresses through its dedicated sympathy. "

Awards

Oscar 1965

  • Nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Orville H. Hampton and Raphael Hayes

International Film Festival of Cannes 1964

  • Award for Best Actress for Barbara Barrie
  • Nominated for the Palme d'Or for Larry Peerce

Writers Guild of America 1965

  • Nomination in the Best Written American Drama category for Orville H. Hampton and Raphael Hayes
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