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A TOUR OF VIOLENCE... IN BLACK & WHITE!

Checkerboard — Plot

In a small Gallic village, tourists are regaled by street entertainers and brash prostitutes. One of the tourists, a black girl named Bessie, falls in love with local villager Bob, and he with her. Soon racial tensions erupt volcanically among tourists and townsfolk alike. All is forgiven when the respective parents of the hero and heroine save the village's water supply.

• Release date
• May 6, 1959
• Runtime
• 125 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Claude Bernard-Aubert

Checkerboard — Cast

Jacques Richard Bob Stanley

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Toto Bissainthe Bessie Vance Douta Seck Vance Grégoire Aslan Stanley père Roger Blin Slim, le guide Milly Vitale Daura Anne Carrère La touriste Nico Pepe Le policier