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Cry, the Beloved Country 1951
so scathing in its indictment of apartheid that the author of the novel the film is based on, Alan Paton and the prime minister of South Africa who implemented the laws of apartheid, D. F. Malan had a handshake at the whites only premiere of the film
(this is sarcasm by the way) (see In Darkest Hollywood by Peter Davis (either the film version or book) or Come Back, Africa (1959) for further elaboration) -
