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A Patch of Blue (1965) , (Drama)

a true classic , where a A blind, uneducated white girl that can't remember any other color but the color blue and constantly abused by her sadistic mother and her weak/alcoholic grandfather is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life .

starring Sidney Poitier as Gordon Ralfe , Shelley Winters ( who won her second Supporting Oscar for playing the savage mother who had blinded her daughter in one of her rages ) as and Elizabeth Hartman as Selina D'Arcey

Director:Guy Green
Writers:Elizabeth Kata (novel)

Guy Green (written by)

Release Date: 10 December 1965