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Pressure & Baldwin's Nigger : DVD Two films by Horace Ové

Contributor(s): Ové, Horace | Norville, Herbert | James, Oscar, 1942- | Singuineau, Frank, 1913-1992 | Lijertwood, Lucita, 1920-1992 | Scott-Wilkinson, Sheila | Devereaux, Ed, 1925-2003 | Wilson, T-Bone | Holder, Ram John, 1934- | Beaton, Norman, 1934- | Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 | Gregory, Dick | Selvon, Samuel | Buckler, Robert | Infilms (Firm) | British Film InstitutePublisher number: BFIVD714 | BFI Video PublishingVFC17069 | BFI Video PublishingPublication details: London : BFI Video Publishing, [2005?] Description: 1 DVD (164 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([10] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)Other title: Pressure [DVD] | Baldwin's nigger [DVD]Subject(s): Youth, Black -- England -- London -- Drama | Blacks -- Social conditions | Blacks -- Intellectual life | London (England) -- Social conditions -- Drama | London (England) -- Ethnic relations -- Drama
Contents:
Pressure (c1975, col., 120 min.) / photography, Mike Davis ; editor, Alan J. Cumner-Price ; screenplay, Horace Ové, Samuel Selvon ; producer, Robert Buckler ; director, Horace Ové ; British Film Institute -- Baldwin's nigger ([1969], b&w, 44 min.) / presented by Infilms ; camera, Gordon Cradock ; editors, John Broderick, Alexis Findon ; produced and directed by Horace Ové.
Cast: Cast for Pressure: Herbert Norville, Oscar James, Frank Singuineau, Lucita Lijertwood, Sheila Scott-Wilkinson, Ed Deveraux, T-Bone Wilson, Ramjohn Holder, Norman Beaton.Cast: Lecturers in Baldwin's nigger: James Baldwin, Dick Gregory.Summary: Pressure: "Hailed as Britain's first black feature film, PRESSURE is a hard-hitting, honest document of the plight of disenchanted British-born black youths. Set in 1970s London, it tells the story of Tony, a bright school-leaver, son of West Indian immigrants, who finds himself torn between his parents' church-going conformity and his brother's Black Power militancy" -- Container.Summary: Baldwin's nigger: "In this documentary James Baldwin and Dick Gregory talk about the black experience in America and relate it with that of the Caribbean and Great Britain today" -- Opening credits.
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Special features: interview with Ové conducted by Jason Wood (c2005, 36 min.); gallery of photographs by Ové.

Booklet includes an essay by Derek Malcolm ("Horace Ové and 'Pressure'"), a biography of Ové, a filmography of Ové, a contemporaneous review of "Pressure" by David Wilson (originally published in the April 1978 issue of "Monthly Film Bulletin"), a contemporaneous profile of Ové by Stuart Hood (originally published on Sept. 17, 1978 in the "Sunday Times"), and a brief interview with Ové about "Baldwin's nigger" conducted by Jason Wood.

Pressure (c1975, col., 120 min.) / photography, Mike Davis ; editor, Alan J. Cumner-Price ; screenplay, Horace Ové, Samuel Selvon ; producer, Robert Buckler ; director, Horace Ové ; British Film Institute -- Baldwin's nigger ([1969], b&w, 44 min.) / presented by Infilms ; camera, Gordon Cradock ; editors, John Broderick, Alexis Findon ; produced and directed by Horace Ové.

Cast for Pressure: Herbert Norville, Oscar James, Frank Singuineau, Lucita Lijertwood, Sheila Scott-Wilkinson, Ed Deveraux, T-Bone Wilson, Ramjohn Holder, Norman Beaton.

Lecturers in Baldwin's nigger: James Baldwin, Dick Gregory.

Pressure was shot on location in London. Baldwin's nigger is a live recording of a discussion at the West Indian Student Centre in London.

Pressure: "Hailed as Britain's first black feature film, PRESSURE is a hard-hitting, honest document of the plight of disenchanted British-born black youths. Set in 1970s London, it tells the story of Tony, a bright school-leaver, son of West Indian immigrants, who finds himself torn between his parents' church-going conformity and his brother's Black Power militancy" -- Container.

Baldwin's nigger: "In this documentary James Baldwin and Dick Gregory talk about the black experience in America and relate it with that of the Caribbean and Great Britain today" -- Opening credits.

System requirements: DVD player or PC with a DVD ROM drive.

DVD, region 2.

In English.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.