Slaves

The plight of blacks under a sadistic plantation owner (Stephen Boyd) in the antebellum South. Cassy: Dionne Warwick. Luke: Ossie Davis. Lady: Gale Sondergaard. Stillwell: Shepperd Strudwick. Esther: Barbara Ann Teer. Jericho: Robert Kya-Hill. Julia: Eva Jessye. Filmed in Shreveport, La. Herbert Biberman directed., Set in the pre-Civil War South, this earnest and revisionist historical drama follows the exploits of a Kentucky slave who is sold to a Mississippi plantation owner. The trouble begins when he sees his new master being cruel to his black mistress.