Zach Laws is a longtime entertainment journalist and independent filmmaker.
During the 1950s, Harry Belafonte was one of the few Black actors in Hollywood given the opportunity to be a leading man. Like Poitier, the roles were limited, and often based on his racial identity. Yet he made the most of the parts he was given, as evidenced by his performance in the 1959 doomsday drama The World, the Flesh and the Devil.
Related This Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier Western Was Revisionism Done Right 'Buck and the Preacher' maintains its power as an essential statement of Black heroism as well as positive racial and historical representation. 'The World, the Flesh and the Devil' Asks If Unity Is Possible In the Face of Nuclear Annihilation What distinguishes MacDougall's film is that it uses a story about nuclear annihilation as a means of exploring racial prejudice, at a time when the Civil Rights Movement was just beginning to take shape.
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