Band of Angels
1957 · Movie · 125 min · ★ 6.3 · 45% critics
In the South before the Civil War, a sheltered young woman loses everything after her father’s sudden death. A painful family truth and crushing debts thrust her into a harsh new reality, forcing her to confront identity, status, and survival in a world built on slavery.
Based on Band of Angels
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Details
- Years
- 1957
- Release date
- 1957-08-03
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Critic score
- 45/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (48 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy old Hollywood historical melodramas with romance, big emotions, and a troubled Civil War-era setting, somewhat in the vein of Les Miserables; Not for you if dated attitudes and slow stretches are dealbreakers.
Pros: lavish period atmosphere; strong supporting turns; compelling central premise | Cons: dated racial treatment; uneven pacing; overheated melodrama
Themes
- plantation
- slave
- slave trade
- biracial
- southern belle
- american civil war
- slave owner
- racial issues
- deep south
- passing for white
- woman's story
Cast & crew
Clark Gable
as Hamish Bond
Yvonne De Carlo
as Amantha Starr
Sidney Poitier
as Rau-Ru
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
as Lt. Ethan Sears
Rex Reason
as Capt. Seth Parton (Union officer)
Patric Knowles
as Charles de Marigny
Torin Thatcher
as Capt. Canavan
Andrea King
as Miss Idell
Ray Teal
as Mr. Calloway
Noreen Corcoran
as Amantha as a child
Directed by Raoul Walsh