The world was full of all colors during the time leading up to the Civil War in the South
The cry for freedom was in the air like a rising wind
Slaves have already gone wild on many plantations but not yet on Pointe du Loup, Louisiana, where it was still serene
Hamish Bond maintains a plantation outside New Orleans At the slave mart he buys a beautiful girl for $5,000 She is the daughter of a supposedly wealthy Kentucky planter After her father's death she discovered he has left her nothing but debts She also discovered her mother was a black slave and that, according to the custom of the time, she is classified of Negro blood and literally sold down the river to discharge her father's debts
Amantha Starr is horrified and degraded at the treatment shea well-bred white girlreceives when she becomes classified as a woman of mixed race
Hamish doesn't relegate the proud dark-haired woman to slave quarters but treats her as a lady in his household, where romance develops Clark Gable plays the New Orleans wealthy gentleman who got a past he'd like to forget He knows better than most men that money is no cure-all He used to think it was He used to think it would open the door to friendship and other essentials more important than power He used to believe it was everything: a drug for loneliness, a painkiller for certain memories, the whole apothecary shop for every problem of life
He bought the attractive Amantha because she was on the slave block Somebody else was bound to bid her on That fellow with laced cuffs putting his hands on her and he hates lace cuffs
Yvonne de Carlo plays Amantha, the lady of quality with Negro heritage She didn't go on her way north, nor she jumped the boat at Pointe du Loup She has suffered, and she always will, with Hamish or without him There always will be the fires, the memories because she loves him, and because he's the only man she ever loved, or ever will
The young Sidney Poitier plays the rebellious ambitious chief slave Rau-Ru who gets off the sidewalk for nobody No constable or paddy roll ever stopped him No steamboat captain ever asked to see his pass Will he feels lucky enough to deliver his boss to the hangman one day?
Hamish Bond maintains a plantation outside New Orleans At the slave mart he buys a beautiful girl for $5,000 She is the daughter of a supposedly wealthy Kentucky planter After her father's death she discovered he has left her nothing but debts She also discovered her mother was a black slave and that, according to the custom of the time, she is classified of Negro blood and literally sold down the river to discharge her father's debts
Amantha Starr is horrified and degraded at the treatment shea well-bred white girlreceives when she becomes classified as a woman of mixed race
Hamish doesn't relegate the proud dark-haired woman to slave quarters but treats her as a lady in his household, where romance develops Clark Gable plays the New Orleans wealthy gentleman who got a past he'd like to forget He knows better than most men that money is no cure-all He used to think it was He used to think it would open the door to friendship and other essentials more important than power He used to believe it was everything: a drug for loneliness, a painkiller for certain memories, the whole apothecary shop for every problem of life
He bought the attractive Amantha because she was on the slave block Somebody else was bound to bid her on That fellow with laced cuffs putting his hands on her and he hates lace cuffs
Yvonne de Carlo plays Amantha, the lady of quality with Negro heritage She didn't go on her way north, nor she jumped the boat at Pointe du Loup She has suffered, and she always will, with Hamish or without him There always will be the fires, the memories because she loves him, and because he's the only man she ever loved, or ever will
The young Sidney Poitier plays the rebellious ambitious chief slave Rau-Ru who gets off the sidewalk for nobody No constable or paddy roll ever stopped him No steamboat captain ever asked to see his pass Will he feels lucky enough to deliver his boss to the hangman one day?