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Pressure

Format:
Video
Contributor:
Ové, Horace, film director.
Singuineau, Frank, actor.
Norville, Herbert, actor.
James, Oscar, actor.
The Criterion Collection (Firm), Distributor.
Kanopy (Firm)., Distributor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Motion pictures.
Drama.
Motion pictures, British.
Emigration and immigration.
London (England).
Racism.
Families.
Black people--Latin America.
Motion pictures--Europe.
Genre:
Feature films
Physical Description:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (127 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Place of Publication:
The Criterion Collection 1975
[San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2025
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web
digital
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Summary:
This gripping and immersive drama was Britain's first feature to be written and directed by a Black filmmaker, and the first to fully focus on the perspective of Black characters. Horace Ové and novelist Sam Selvon's gritty script centers on teenage Tony (Herbert Norville), caught between his Trinidadian parents' (Lucita Lijertwood, Frank Singuineau) desire to attain middle-class respectability in London and his older brother Colin's (Oscar James) urging to join the Black Power movement
Participant:
Frank Singuineau, Herbert Norville, Oscar James
Notes:
Title from title frames
Film
In Process Record
Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1975
Publisher Number:
16480629 Kanopy
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license

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