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One Potato, Two Potato Directed by Larry Peerce Produced by Sam Weston Written by Orville H. Hampton
Raphael HayesStarring Barbara Barrie
Bernie HamiltonMusic by Gerald Fried Cinematography Andrew Laszlo Editing by Robert Fritch Distributed by Cinema V Release date(s) July 29, 1964 Running time 83 minutes Country United States Language English For the children's counting rhyme, see Counting-out game and Selection methods.One Potato, Two Potato is a 1964 black-and-white drama film directed by Larry Peerce and starring Barbara Barrie and Bernie Hamilton.
The story concerns the difficulties faced by an interracial marriage between an African-American office worker and a white divorcee. The climax of the film is a highly emotional courtroom custody case in which the woman's angry ex-husband demands custody of their daughter, charging that the child's welfare is threatened by the environment created by her marriage to a black man.
It was shot in its entirety, in and around the small northeastern Ohio city of Painesville.[1]
For her role as Julie Cullen Richards, Barrie won the Best Actress award at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
Cast
- Barbara Barrie as Julie Cullen Richards
- Bernie Hamilton as Frank Richards
- Richard Mulligan as Joe Cullen
- Harry Bellaver as Judge Powell
- Marti Mericka as Ellen Mary
- Robert Earl Jones as William Richards
- Vinnette Carroll as Martha Richards
- Sam Weston as Johnny Hruska
- Faith Burwell as Ann Hruska
- Jack Stamberger as The Minister
- Michael Shane as Jordan Hollis
Notes
External links
- One Potato, Two Potato at the Internet Movie Database
- One Potato, Two Potato at AllRovi
Films directed by Larry Peerce 1960s One Potato, Two Potato (1964) · The Big T.N.T. Show (1966) · The Incident (1967) · Goodbye, Columbus (1969)1970s The Sporting Club (1971) · A Separate Peace (1972) · Ash Wednesday (1973) · The Other Side of the Mountain (1975) · Two-Minute Warning (1976) · The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 (1978) · The Bell Jar (1979)1980s Why Would I Lie? (1980) · Love Child (1982) · Hard to Hold (1984) · The Fifth Missile (1986) · Wired (1989)1990s Child of Rage (1992) · A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story (1994) · Christmas Every Day (1996) · A Secret Life (1999)Categories:- American films
- 1964 films
- Black-and-white films
- 1960s drama films
- Interracial romance films
- English-language films
- Independent films
- Films directed by Larry Peerce
- 1960s drama film stubs
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