A Patch of Blue (1965)

One of my all time favorites.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

This is a very good movie. "A Patch of Blue" with Sidney Poitier,1965. I usually can't get into tearjerkers but this one was really good. Poitier befriends then falls in love with a neglected and abused blind girl. His being black complicates matters. Poitier is great in an (for him) understated role. Black & white photography actually adds to the feeling. Try & catch this.

What was there about Sidney Poitier. What was it that made him a standout star among Black and White audiences, at a time when almost nobody else achieved that. This film was not among his first, but it was one of those (also, like "Lilies Of The Field" and "To Sir, With Love") that began to establish him as a true movie star, although I would say it took "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" to cement his position among the top tier of actors. And deservedly so. It's very difficult to be critical of his performance here.This was probably Elizabeth Hartman's most honored performance in her short career. It's got to be a challenge to portray a blind person as convincingly as she does here...and without flaw.Shelly Winters has a thankless role here, and I'm not sure quite how to react to it. Some here have said that in this role she is one-dimensional, and that may be true. A little better is Wallace Ford as the grandfather...an alcholic to perfection. And, it's interesting to see Ivan Dixon in something other than "Hogan's Heroes".I can't say that this is one of my favorite films, but it is one that impresses me. Thank God for Sidney Poitier!

This movie is one of my all-time favorites. I first saw it back in the 1960s and have been haunted by it ever since. Just amazingly beautiful story, well acted and directed. Sidney Portier is such an amazing man and actor and this is his best film in my opinion, followed closely by To Sir With Love and Lillies of the Field.Shelley Winters portrayal of the hussy mother deserved an Oscar. She was really mean in this movie. Old Pa was perfectly cast. Elizabeth Hartman simply gave the performance of a lifetime in her role as Selina.The bittersweet story will grip you from beginning to end. They just don't make 'em like this anymore.

"A patch of blue" (1965) directed by Guy Green is a movie about the blindness of a young lady and by this happening was doing as event a date as a different kind of sensuality and also melodramatic sensibleness like is shown on the scene where the book "Light in a dark world" is delaying among friends. The musicality inspired by the synchronized sound track with the true melodramatic family story of smashed low class, from a single mother with her daughter cohabiting with an old man at home, after such an involuntary tragedy of the past - the acid thrown by a fellow of the mother during a dispute at home, before the awakening of the child at night which by error blind her little daughter - brings us the chock of mentalities. All the subject is illustrated by this, which means also that this movie as fiction beside a reconstructed reality out of framework, having by this track a sound well conceived with an elaborated sense of orientation in that preciosity, touching the viewer for anything like more than complicity between two complementary characters. Namely between the fifties of police overwhelming presence at any corner by night as though it was the end of the world for tomorrow and the sixties with much more democratic values on the streets just before unrest on spirituality. The collective culpability that inspires this movie at the time, includes as well as if it was in the scene of the park also with the manifest indifference for this almost family affair by the occasional citizens that assisting such an incident between mother and daughter. Conflict barely closed on the spot with the silent opportunity by the occasional witnesses of good taste and by this way winning the trend by a well done acting. Namely by the young character of Sidney Poitier as if it was a beautiful black athlete. It is ironically this kind of appointment and a little bit of fake brotherhood happens here, notwithstanding the solidarity manifested in a kind of portrait as anti-hero of the hour and exception to the rule, which is quite exceptionally even at that moment. Which is watched and showed at the redaction office of a local newspaper, where is another acquaintance at the time of the fight for civil rights and brings some consideration to the happening as unexpected encounter between two human kinds with different color skins.