Band of Angels
You're no blue blood any more, honey. The master bought you...and now he's waitin'!
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8/3/1957Runtime
125 minsOverview
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.
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EnglishBudget
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$2,500,000Homepage
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A woman's carefully constructed world collapses when she discovers her mixed-race heritage and finds herself enslaved in the antebellum South. The film traces her painful reckoning with privilege lost and the systemic brutality she must endure.
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Clark Gable
Hamish Bond
Yvonne De Carlo
Amantha Starr
Sidney Poitier
Rau-Ru
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Lt. Ethan Sears
Rex Reason
Capt. Seth Parton (Union officer)
Patric Knowles
Charles de Marigny
Torin Thatcher
Capt. Canavan
Andrea King
Miss Idell
Ray Teal
Mr. Calloway
Noreen Corcoran
Amantha as a child
William Forrest
Aaron Starr, Amantha's father
Tommie Moore
Dollie
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