Mark of the Hawk: Sidney Poitier, Eartha Kitt

Sat 17th March  2-5pm

BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road SE1

Tube: Waterloo

www.bfi.org.uk

Admission £5.00 best to book early

Filmed in 1957 just two years after Rosa Parks bus boycott. This is a blockbuster film with two of the biggest black stars of that decade. Mightier than all the forces on earth is an idea whose time has come. In this case it's African liberation. Poitier is rising nationalist leader Obam, who struggles for his people's freedom in the face of bloodthirsty colonials, disorganised Africans and a hot-headed brother. Sponsored by the Presbyterian Church, its preachiness and opposition to 'godless communism' fail to conceal the timeliness of its message. A rare and unmissable curiosity, shot in Technicolor.
Introduced by actor Tim Reid, with a short from his Legacy Media Institute programme