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Release Date: 1964

Cast: Robert Earl Jones, Barbara Barrie, Bernie Hamilton

Categories: Movies, Indie, Drama Film, Black-And-White

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... MORE

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. For her role as Julie Cullen Richards, Barrie won the Best Actress award at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. LESS