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Sapphire is a 1959 British crime drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, and Paul Massie. A progressive film for its time, [4] it focuses on racism in London toward immigrants from the West Indies , and explores the "underlying insecurities and fears of ordinary people" about those of ...
Sapphire: Directed by Basil Dearden. With Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Paul Massie. The murder of a young woman in London exposes deep racial tensions and prejudices inherent in the area.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Basil Dearden
- 1959-11-02
Directed by Basil Dearden. The sensational story of a girl who didn’t belong. Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white.
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- Artna Films Ltd., The Rank Organisation
- Basil Dearden
A pregnant college student named Sapphire Robbins (Yvonne Buckingham) is murdered in London's Hampstead Heath. When police superintendent Robert Hazard (Nigel Patrick) discovers that the victim...
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- Basil Dearden
- Mystery & Thriller
- Nigel Patrick
Going on a hunch from the minimal evidence on hand, the lead police investigators, Superintendent Bob Hazard and Inspector Phil Learoyd, discover that she is twenty-one-year-old Sapphire Robbins, a student at the Music Conservatory.
Basil Dearden’s bold, direct police procedural, starring Nigel Patrick as the detective in charge of the investigation, is a devastating look at the way bigotry crosses class divides, and a snapshot of the increasingly interracial culture of England in the late fifties.
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A "light-skinned" black co-ed has a penchant for passing as white and hanging at London's bars at night. When she is found murdered, a number of suspects are considered, including the naive white architect student who fell in love with her,never suspecting she was black.
