Native Land
6.3
“The Picture with the Most Exciting Story of Our Time!”
By the start of World War II, Paul Robeson had given up his lucrative mainstream work to participate in more socially progressive film and stage productions. Robeson committed his support to Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz’s political semidocumentary Native Land. With Robeson’s narration and songs, this beautifully shot and edited film exposes violations of Americans’ civil liberties and is a call to action for exploited workers around the country. Scarcely shown since its debut, Native Land represents Robeson’s shift from narrative cinema to the leftist documentaries that would define the final chapter of his controversial film career.
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Cast
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Paul Robeson
Narrator
Known for
Show Boat
Fred Johnson
Fred Hill
Known for
The Curse of Frankenstein
The Brides of Dracula
Mary George
Hill's Wife
John Rennick
Hill's Son
No other roles listed
Amelia Romano
Young Girl in Cleveland
Also in
From This Day Forward
Hotshot
Houseley Stevenson
White Sharecropper
Known for
Dark Passage
Colorado Territory
Louis Grant
Black Sharecropper
James Hanney
Mack
No other roles listed
Howard Da Silva
Jim
Known for
The Lost Weekend
They Live by Night
Art Smith
Harry Carlyle
Known for
In a Lonely Place
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Robert Strauss
Frank Mason, grocer
Known for
The Seven Year Itch
Stalag 17
John Marley
Thug With Crowbar
Known for
The Godfather
Love Story
Leo Hurwitz Director · Paul Strand Director Ben Maddow Writer
United States release May 11, 1942 · Produced in United States
Production
Frontier Films
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · May 11, 1942
Theatrical
XC
February 10, 1950 · Theatrical
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