Drake Walker

Après la guerre de Sécession, Buck (Sidney Poitier), un ancien sergent de la cavalerie de l'armée de l'Union, prend la tête d'un groupe d'esclaves affranchis voulant passer la frontière du Colorado. Dans ce groupe voyagent aussi sa femme (Ruby Dee) et un pseudo pasteur dont la bible truquée contient un revolver (Harry Belafonte). Les voyageurs sont attaqués par des hordes d'anciens esclavagistes qui tentent de les renvoyer à leur misérable vie dans les fermes de Louisiane; Buck et ses compagnons devront faire preuve de courage pour parvenir à leur but ultime : s'installer dans une terre de promesses et connaître enfin une existence d'hommes libres.

Two waiters in Depression-era Arkansas get involved in the numbers racket.

Two waiters in Depression-era Arkansas get involved in the numbers racket.

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.

Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?

Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?