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Eartha Kitt and Sidney Poitier star in this tale of a man named Obam (Poitier) and his struggles in British occupied Africa. As tension divides the country, Obam seeks racial harmony through peace. He enlists the help of his wise wife (Kitt) and a sympathetic missionary (John McIntire), but his fight to make a difference in an atmosphere of African nationalism is tougher than he thinks. Can he make changes to what appears to be a doomed situation?
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The Mark of the Hawk (1957)
83 min
The man called Obam struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial African country. The African natives want their land and lives back from the British colonists. Obam's motives are questioned by his own people, in particular his brother Kanda. With the help of his wife Renee and missionary Bruce Craig, will he be able to get things under control before the country self-destructs? Written by Greg Bruno