Black Like Me (film)
Black Like Me is a 1964 American drama film based on the 1961 book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin. The journalist disguised himself to pass as an African-American man for six weeks in 1959 in the Deep South to report on life in the segregated society from the other side of the color line. The film was directed by Carl Lerner and the screenplay was written by Carl and Gerda Lerner. The film stars James Whitmore, Sorrell Booke and Roscoe Lee Browne.
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| Directed by | Carl Lerner |
| Screenplay by | Carl Lerner Gerda Lerner |
| Based on | Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin |
| Produced by | Julius Tannenbaum |
| Starring | James Whitmore |
| Cinematography | Victor Lukens Henry Mueller II |
| Edited by | Lora Hays |
| Music by | Meyer Kupferman |
Production company | The Hilltop Company |
| Distributed by | Continental Distributing |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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