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Admitted into t he National Film Registry of the Library of Congress and a landmark of indep endent filmmaking, Michael Roemer’s 1964 drama about a blue-collar worker s truggling to retain his dignity is one of the most sincere and sensitive fil ms about black life ever made. Duff, a traveling railroad laborer, romance s and marries Josie, a small-town preacher's daughter while fighting tooth and nail to stay respected as a man. One of Ebony magazine’s Top 10 Black Fi lms of All Time and winner of the San Giorgio Prize at the 1964 Venice Film Festival.

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