The scenes are realistic, even brutally filmed, and the language strong for its day. Here we see a deeply prejudiced South where black girls are attacked on the streets and shops refuse them service. "Pinky" is not as good as "Gentleman's Agreement", but it ain't half bad either. And if he didn't show much courage in the Fifties, he sure did in the Forties when he tackled racial prejudice head-on in two excellent movies: "Gentleman's Agreement" and "Pinky" (John Ford is said to have chickened-out of directing this one). It is not very "in" to like Elia Kazan right now, because he named names in the McCarthy witch-hunts and just received an honorary Oscar, but what a brilliant director he was.
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