📽 WATCH: Saturday Night Classic Film • THE LEARNING TREE • 1969🍿

This is a great old movie that gets posted on YouTube but taken down every so often ~ while it's back up, I thought I'd post it again for anyone who has never seen it or for whom it has been a long time ~ semi-autobiographical from Gordon Parks the director of Shaft...

As an African-American teen in small-town Kansas in the 1920s, Newt Winger (Kyle Johnson) largely shrugs off the racial prejudice of his time and place. His calm and self-controlled perspective is in direct opposition to that of his quick-tempered friend, Marcus Savage (Alex Clarke). But when Marcus' father, Booker (Richard Ward), murders a man -- and Newt witnesses the crime -- Newt realizes that going to the police could jeopardize both his friendship and his life.

Director: Gordon Parks
Story by: Gordon Parks
Screenplay: Gordon Parks
Cinematography: Burnett Guffey

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