Go, Man, Go!

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name = Go, Man, Go!


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director = James Wong Howe
producer = Alfred Palca
writer = Alfred Palca
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starring = Dane Clark
Sidney Poitier
The Harlem Globetrotters
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distributor = United Artists
released = 1954
runtime = 82 min.
country = U.S.A.
language = English
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amg_id = 1:93354
imdb_id = 0047032

"Go, Man, Go!" is a 1954 sports film starring Dane Clark, Sidney Poitier and The Harlem Globetrotters. Clark plays Abe Saperstein, the organizer of the Globetrotters. Poitier's character is Inman Jackson, the team's showboating center.

The film tracks the Globetrotters from humble beginnings through a triumph over a major-league basketball team, as they struggle to overcome racial discrimination. Actual Harlem Globetrotter players portray the team in basketball action throughout the picture. [cite news |first= Bosley |last= Crowther | authorlink = Bosley Crowther |title= THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; Harlem Globetrotters Perform in a Sports Romance, 'Go, Man, Go!' at the Globe |url= http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A01E2DE1738E23BBC4852DFB566838F649EDE |work= New York Times |date=March 10, 1954 |accessdate=2008-05-04 ] The friendship between Saperstein and Jackson, and their wives, is an important storyline. [cite web |url= http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:93354|title= Go, Man, Go!|accessdate=2008-05-04 |last= Brennan|first= Sandra |publisher=Allmovie]

Hollywood blacklist

Screenwriter and producer Alfred Palca was accused by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1953 of being a Communist. He refused to cooperate with their investigations. No distributor was willing to release the film with his name credited, so he gave the producing credit to his brother-in-law, Anton M. Leader, and the screenwriting credit to his cousin, Arnold Becker, a pediatrician. He never worked in the film industry again. According to Palca, the F.B.I. saw his casting of Poitier as further evidence of his Communism. [cite news |first= Bruce |last= Weber |title= Four Decades After He Was Blacklisted, A Writer-Producer Finally Gets Credit |url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F03E0D7163EF933A1575BC0A961958260&sec=&spon=|work= New York Times |date=August 20, 1997 |accessdate=2008-05-04 ]

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