Take a Giant Step

From Playground to hunting ground - in a bar!

Take a Giant Step — Plot

After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with a teacher, he turns to his grandmother for advice. Spence, who lives in a genteel white area and has mostly white friends, feels like an outsider. He visits a bar in a black neighborhood, where he meets a few prostitutes, which doesn't help. Eventually, Spence starts a friendship with the housekeeper, Christine, who tells him her own difficult story.

• Release date
• December 1, 1959
• Runtime
• 100 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Philip Leacock

Take a Giant Step — Cast

Johnny Nash Spencer Scott Estelle Hemsley Grandmother Martin Ruby Dee Christine Frederick O'Neal Lem Scott Beah Richards May Scott Ellen Holly The Girl in the Bar Paulene Myers Violet Royce Wallace Rose Thompson