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My Baby Is Black! / Checkerboard: Double Feature

1959 Rated NR 3hr

A pair of French-produced exploitation dramas examines a double helping of controversial topics: sex and race. In My Baby Is Black! (1961), a white woman has an affair with a black student, giving birth to his child without his knowledge. In Checkerboard (1959), a Caucasian ex-paratrooper in a segregated Midwestern town begins a relationship with an African-American woman, provoking unsettling reactions from the locals.

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Cast: Jacques Richard, Gordon Heath, Toto Bissainthe, more...

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Movie Details

Cast: Jacques Richard, Gordon Heath, Toto Bissainthe, Douta Seck, Grégoire Aslan , Francoise Giret, Aram Stephan, Mag-Avril, Roger Blin, Herve Watine

Director: Claude Bernard-Aubert

Genres: Foreign, Foreign Dramas, France, French Language, Foreign Languages, Foreign Regions

Language: French

Format: DVD

Ratings: NR
Not rated. This movie has not been rated by the MPAA.

Screen formats

Full Screen 1.33:1

Subtitles

No

Closed captioned

No

Language and sound

French: Dolby Digital Mono, English: Dolby Digital Mono

Other features

Filmed in B&W; interactive menus; scene access; trailer; featurettes.