High Yellow (1965) - A Film by Larry Buchanan | Cynthia Hull Bill McGhee
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- Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024
- A light-skinned black woman (Cynthia Hull) uncovers sordid dealings in the home of a tyrannical movie producer, his hypochondriac wife and other troubled family members.
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The black actor in this film is my father. More of his film are on my YT page. Trivia fact... my father was offered In The Heat Of The Night, after this was released. Due to timing conflicts, he couldn't go to Hollywood. I think the part went to Sidney Poitier.
Thank you Dawn for sharing ❤️
@@reelblack Absolutely
Good to see his work went a long way through you.
The acting and the script was grade A.
@@leomartin1603 ty... I can't hold a candle to his talent... but i try...
Films in the 60's had the MOST AMAZING MUSIC & SOUND TRACK!
#jazz 🎺 🎶 🥁 🎸🎹 📯
When live instruments were a must
Loud anyway!
Every day I find a new gem on this channel. Big big thank you for all your hard work in bringing wonderful content to us. We need some nostalgia now more than ever. 💕💯
I love RUclips more than regular TV 📺
.. indeed my survive .. indeed ✊🏿✌🏿
Thank you for sharing this movie. My 99 year old mom really enjoyed watching it❤
I been looking for this movie for 8 years. Wow.
Wow, great Friday night movie! I enjoy movies where the endings aren’t predictable. Only the classics, including the background music😁Thanks for showing💯
FANTASTIC !!!!! OUTSTANDING !!!! THIS RARE MASTERPIECE SEEMS TO BE FORGOTTEN BY TIME . I HAVE NEVER SEEN OR KNEW OF THIS FILM BEFORE, DESPITE STAYING UP LATE WATCHING MOVIES FOR DECADES. THANK YOU reelblack FOR POSTING THIS CLASSIC !!!! THANK YOU YOU/TUBE !!!!
I really enjoy it...it's like a mainstream Jon Waters film....very Hairspray esc....minus if you understand what I'm trying to say. Its brilliant and I would lice to hear Jon's take on the movie
1959 flick "Sapphire" is pretty good too 👍👍
So many films out there with black content that I've never heard about, that were kept very low key under the radar, or were never shown. But yet, they still continue to keep pushing racist clown films like 'Birth of a Nation" especially in film schools and they have the audacity to say it was the greatest film ever made..for whom??? Thank goodness for all the hard work you do to bring these films to our attention and enjoyment. I love your channel, I enjoy watching these films, Thank you so much for finding these hidden gems and posting them on your channel. Great work and very much appreciated! Thank you!!🙏🏾 🙏🏾✨✨✨
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@@reelblack Thanks for all that you do! I'd never seen or heard of this movie before, and I'm an old movie buff. I enjoyed it, despite volume not balanced. Keep up the great work! NOTE: I'm a subscriber & would've never known about this movie had it not been for you. Thanks a million!
@@reelblack My first time ever hearing about this movie. Very good movie.
Birth of a nation is shown because its a learning tool, so thatw e can see why racism persists. So please don't tell me you want that banned? This film has nowhere teh social impact of Birth of a nation. Just facts.
At 18, I felt critics were nuts when I heard "birth of a nation" was the greatest.....only if your somehow happy with the exploitation of Blacks.
ありがとう！！ 低予算ムービー
洋物の50年代、60年代の日本には未公開の映画の大フアンです。
特に米国では、この時代の映画、テレビシリーズなど楽しめるものがたくさんあります。
この映画も興味深く拝見しました。
This movie was a SCREAM! The melodramatic acting and background music---and the scene at the club😆😆😆! And to think I was 2 years old when this movie was released!
Me too
Damn you're old! This is before my time. I wasn't even born yet. Just messin, 66 Right behind you.
@@dannyhood7433 You old bigger, you!😂🤣
No BS. Out of nowhere I wondered where the term "high yellow" stemmed from, and when I Googled it, this movie popped up, so I decided to watch it with my family. What a hidden old-timey gem.
It didn't stem from this movie
Google the Yellow Rose of Texas.
Idk about anybody else but the audio is really really low,I can barely hear anything
Even today you got submutants passing as white mutants. Because of dog heir and light skin looking like a white mutant. Yes Spanish and Japanese and Chinese and Korean and middle est submutants are passing. They're even in the kkk .
A lot of submutants yes none white submutants they even hate us human beings to.
They hate where they come from and who they truly are .
Yes they was a true human not a white mutant.
Yes I said a white mutant. 😂
The term (high yella'/yellow) has been around well before 1965. We're talking about the time of slavery.
I think this movie was VERY RISQUE for the time period, especially THE "JAM" PUSHOVER.
Another trivia tidbit... the house and property were the same location for the tv drama, "Dallas". There was a fire on the property and it was rebuilt by the time the drama was filmed. BUT it is the same property. House was renovated. Same pool, etc.
Great trivia tidbit! Wow
That LINCOLN WITH THEM SUICIDE DOORS WAS ICONIC.
Kennedy
Absolutely!
So was the maid's hair bump.
My friend's mom had that same Lincoln Continental. It was dark green. I'd never heard that term, suicide doors, until I rode in it. It was self explanatory.
A phrase that came late in life to me (as well)…
Such a Beautiful most graceful actor. WoW. What happened to this kind of femininty so eloquant and humble.
I really love the fashion in this film :) the ladies look quite nice 🌸💕
It could come back, in a different form, when permanent tattoos go away
THIS MOVIE, Reminds Me, SO MUCH OF THE FILM... 🎥🎥🎥
(The IMATATION OF LIFE)!!!
That's what kept running through my head. Love both
And "Pinky"...
@@adailydaughter6196 There's another movie I Passed for White!
Have you saw the movie “ I passed for White”…….it’s a jaw dropper as well
Most of the music score is actually library music by the late, great John Barry (best known for his James Bond scores)! These are from his awesome "Mood One" through "Mood Four" tracks, which I believe were originally intended for the British movie BEAT GIRL (1960)!
The intense music is called "Mood Three," which was also recorded as a faster stereo version called "Beat For Beatniks." "Mood Four" is the quieter, slower music.
I am a HUGE fan of John Barry
Buchanan used recordings of fully orchestrated music composed by Ronald Stein which had earlier been used in American International flicks in the mid through late fifties in all of his Azalea productions remakes of sci films from that decade.
@@paulppchristman5827 Oh yes! I hope some of those scores still exist, because I would love to hear Stein's US portion of the score for REPTILICUS (the original Danish was by Sven Gyldmark) on a soundtrack! (It was used in some of Buchanan's movies.)
@@ryuuseipro Ronald Stein composed music used in Reptilicus? Thanks ! Didn't know that til now. Portions of Reptilicus' music can be heard during the pre credit sequence in "Curse of the Swamp Creature". Stein's music features such beautiful harmonic discord especially in "Day the World Ended" which is also heard during the opening credits of "It's Alive !" The slow, eerie melody played on the strings is haunting and deliciously unsettling, similar to Robert Cobert's scores for the original Dark Shadows tv series.
Thank you!
This is a good movie. I'm looking up the names. We learn something new everyday. Now I see other images of her, I recognize her in the Native American photos. Great this your Father. I'll check more of him out. Thank you for posting.
My favorite quote of the movie and a line that certainly could make one "obligate" their partner to hook up already: 😆 😆
"You don't have to prove anything to me ____; But you must prove it to yourself."
Ms. Cindy Wood
"High Yellow" (1965)
😂😂 facts
Thanks for sharing! Good movie. You show shows and movies we never seen before or even heard of. Love this channel!👍❤😊
I'm only 40 minutes into this MOVIE which I had no intention of watching it through but I was stricken by the storyline.
And for the first time I understood the meaning of the word "PASSING" which if my memory serves me right was a concept I briefly learned from a recent advertisement of a show either on Netflix or some other streaming service.
I don't remember the name of that show which was set in the early 1900s. I remember briefly reading about a light skinned black girl passing as a White girl. And that's all I remember from that show. But when I heard the maid character say the word "pass" in a conversation with the chauffeur, I was intrigued.
I had to pause the movie to write this because I'm now truly invested in this storyline. I'm enjoying this free movie immensely for a Saturday night movie night. I'm already thinking that I'm going to have to see this movie once again...perhaps over and over and over again. Which is quite surprising for myself because I'm not into old classic movies as such.
But oh well. Here we go. I'll be back at the end of the movie to tell you my thoughts for the rest of the movie. But so far, so 👍 good. I'm loving it. The girl that plays the maid, is quite a good actress and I'm not sure if she's Black or not in real life.
UPDATE:
I just finished watching the entire movie. And let me just tell you how impressed I was for the storyline and the acting. I would watch it again and again and again. I think this movie could have a re-make for sure. And perhaps add a few more plot lines and details to stretch it to 2 hrs. Perhaps a few more details concerning the Sergeant and his association with the father and also more details about George and his doings in the military. And also more details of the chauffeur and especially the details of the wife and her meetings with the Priest and their sessions.
All in all what a SPLENDID and WONDERFUL classic of a movie!!
I truly enjoyed that film.
Same thang here Sane.
I'm 49 from Detroit,,,I knew about PASSING in the 80's.
U must be in your early 20's and not know about PASSING or u are not BLACK.
True story...my family from Louisiana...and they still tell this one: back in the 30s or so a passing man in our family had moved up north and passed for white. White wife, white kids etc. When he died he put it in His will that he wanted his funeral to be in his hometown and he wanted the family down home to know what had a happened to him. Long story short...his white family came down to Louisiana and found out for the 1st he was black. 😆 🤣
The movie was called Immitation of Life
Good movie, profound in many ways...excellent chemistry between the actors, Judy and Cindy et al.
This got TRULY SLEPT on. I hope it gets at least 399,000 views.
What a wonderful movie 🎥👏🏿 I love classic movies ❤
That way of communication in the older days is rather interesting.... I've been away from this approach for so long I got confused..... So I did a rewind on why the front door of the car was closed and the rear door was opened ( along with the few words they exchanged )
Black women in the 60's and 70's were so gorgeous.
Yes! I love the hairstyles!!! So beautiful ❤
You should have seen the mixed girls... Omg
Black women are beautiful in every decade!!
@@joshmayer3311the mixed girls were Black girls back then. We saw the few that there was.
@@deemaverick987 black is black.. mixed is mixed
Crazy how they came up with such movie scripts even so far back!!
This stuff was happening in real life long before this movie
No it's not... it was all programming just like it is today.
@@lyonahjudah1549 Ok then it's not
@@lyonahjudah1549 sandoz tripoli - the plot ain’t news to me ! Yea thank family values. 1964 1965 grapes
This was most likely a low budget art film.
Most of Larry Buchanan's films were fun but enjoyable , another one that was pretty rare but good was "Free, White & 21" , I have alot of these flicks on VHS and DVD , thanks to my parents 🌟 👍👍
A classic movie and real story throughout many Black Communities in the world 🌎.....no matter how high the skin tone may be it's that one drop 🩸that is always the issue in relationships regardless of the nature of the relationship;
the individual is always challenged 🙏🏾🩸🙏🏾
it's usually those their trying to immulate who have a way of letting them know they don't fit in.....this why it is so good to be comfortable in your own SKIN whether it's Yellow, Brown, Red or White that's RIGHT!❤️
Hello right we all have been through this problem in this world. Me I'm Cherokee , English , Irish, & German on moms side. Dad's side chocktaw, Irish, & German & my hair is a calico; Black ,brown, red ,& blonde born with wavy pin straight hair .people need to know that we're all mixed in some way & we're all just the same down to our bones except the color of our skin & people need to look in the mirror at how many times they have hurt people by their actions & wake up to we're all of the same it how people treat people live & let live peace & love 💯
Yes! They got reality checks often! It just seems that life of lies would be tiring, keeping the lies up, trying to fit in, trying to remember things, constantly lying and hiding. Just love who you are and where you come from, then there are no lies to keep up and you won’t get caught up.
I know interracial couples that have been married 30 plus years. Its an issue for some, not all.
@user-ll5cc6pg4y Its a good one. I watched it twice.
I'm soooo enjoying these films THANK YOU!!❤❤❤
This is fun melodramatic soap opera! Thanks for showing this.❤
What a coincidence High Yellow popped up on my timeline! I was leaving my office today and this man yelled hey High yellow to me which I haven’t heard that in years! Big brother is definitely watching and listening to us! In the meantime let me check out this movie 😂
Classiic
You are not high yellow more like Caramel like will Smith High yellow is Megan Markle. Mariah
@@freespirit.guidedbyangels.1586 have you seen me in person? Ummm no!!
Ew, that was ignorant..
check your RUclips permission, your mic settings must be on and RUclips silently listen to conversation of people and suggests contents accordingly.
As times changes in many ways things remain the same...Great acting and honest words of bigotry are expressed. Today the same ignorance takes place, however; it is decorated with of hidden hate and hidden injustice. A person now has to be someone they are not in order to survive in a free world...
delighted this film didn't have lynching derogatory racism in it.
I wish it. did.
@@GaryPinkney-ew2doweirdo.
Thank you for this movie.I loved it.
Cynthia reminds me of Johnny Cash's first wife Vivian Liberto.
I've been called "HIGH YELLOW" all of my life so I have to WATCH this movie RIGHT NOW for REAL! Maybe I'll learn what the heck folks talking about?? LOL Smh
UPDATE: Just as I always KNEW. Folks didn't know what they were talking about calling "me" High yellow. LOL Smh Yellow yes but NOT high. LOL THANKS FOR SHARING HUN!
Just means you're light skinned. The movie just like corny shit you see today will take words from our culture and misrepresent. Passing & Light Skinned are different shades . Light bright & damn near white is closer to the description & slang about who could pass.
@@donnimetropolis9899 Exactly 💯!
High yellow. Your missing the point of where the high comes from. It’s derogatory. Means we are better and higher in the white mans social structure than dark skin ppl And technically we not yellow. More like African ppl with brown skin with yellow golden undertones
So many in my family passed for white and so many do this generation. It's interesting. Jewish folk did the same. Many changed their last name to more Anglo names. What people did to get by ...
So true. And I understand.
It’s all about survival.
It’s truly sad living a lie……Always live in your truth! I do understand why people did it then, and why some do it now as well. I personally could not deny my reality tho.
Did they really "get by", when they lost sense of themselves as an attempt to emulate those they could never be?...Do you remember when Mae West tried that, only to eventually become penniless and destitute?
Interesting title. Great intro music. I live for these movies! Hope it's good.
All I know is the hair bump in the tiara in her maid's uniform is everything. 👏👏
That lovely bump is called a, "Bouffant".
It sho' is!!! I was looking at that.
The maid was stunning.
The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice.
Even the beast knows that the black women is god......I scribe with my tribe gladly...
Reelblack rocks.
Wow, this is a super rare 1965 High Yellow movie and a great movie too!!
Why was this ,not, spun into a series?
This could've been right there with, Decoy and Honey West.
Cindy had a killer shape on her.
U ain't lying! I said 2myself, ssshhhhiiit she ain't passing once you see that shapely figure 😏
😁👍🏽
Dead give away that she is Black with all that big apple bottom. 😊😅
Hear of this movie, it's finally here
Thats was funny when she told her she can pass for a white girl, and she said "I intend to"... Ahhh, to be caucasian is such a privilege.. Ask any caucasian person, from any background and ask them to switch places with a black person, they wont...especially if they brown or darker..
I'm a African woman who want change places with a white woman because I know who I am! Black privilege!😃😃😃🤔
I'm a black woman who would never want to change places with a white person! Black and proud!😃😃
@marydavis7978 Okay!!!! Why would a person want to switch places with a "White Person" no rhythm, they age like milk...I could go on, but I won't. Less is more....
I was in a hospital once with a black girl who was suicidal and balled into a fetal position in a corner because she was trapped in her black body,, it was the saddest thing I've ever seen,, I often wonder what became of her and what made her that way,, 😔
And no one wants to trade you places with a Jewish girl,, trust me😉
Great film with realistic life happenings.
How will she pass when this whole family knows her truth. If she's gonna pass it can't be there now.
I agree……that threw me for a whirl
Her mom is a teacher, yet she has to quit school to work.
Then that big ole African American behind on such a small person will give her away every time. She would never pass.
This was a good movie!
This is a very good movie. Cynthia Hull pulled it off.
Today certain individuals has to lie and be who aren’t in order to not just live but to survive...
I do believe so called mixed children do this. Genetic survival go to the white side
This film is sad on so many levels...
That departing music is dope.
Facts!!! I kind of feel like making a beat with it.
@@alonzosmith1085 that sh×t has NO CUT on it my ni××a. Make sure you throw some legendary 808 bass In the beat.😃
WOW! Thank you, love your channel!👍🏽
I can't help but wonder if the detective is a member of the Bush family (George W. and his dad, George H. ). He sure looks like them. And Larry Buchanan (the filmmaker) is from Texas.
I thought the same thing. He looked like W.
This is a Outstanding movie,,,,,to never have been heard of,,, like Sidney Poitier's work.
They could have made this into a daytime soap during the '60s. The intrigue, the drama, the sets. If I remember right there were quite a few black movies made that decade. I was born and raised in northern Ohio and had never heard the phrase "high yellow." Interracial sex was a new thing on screen but here I see she did the deed, "because you need to prove it to yourself" (that he wasn't gay). I knew a guy that used that when he was trying to get a girl to go to bed with him and the girl was eager to show him he wasn't gay. But I enjoyed this movie immensely, very entertaining.
This.movie.is.a.part.of.USA.history.
Like. Noting.but.a.man.abbey.an.iven
Dickson.
Once I got into this movie it got better
This was amazing
I guess she got her rhythm from her dad lol. Fit in perfectly.
You caught that too!!! 🤣🤣🤣
The thumbnail alone is EVERYTHING 🔥
Loved this movie R.I.H uncle Bill
Thank you for posting this Graylen. It means so much to me.
Great movie 💕
Both of Judy and Cindy are VERY cute.
Ngl. They look like they could be sisters.
Criterion needs to get they’re hands on this one great film.
Perhaps Larry Buchanan began his series of made for tv sci fi flicks after he made this one. Cynthia Hull starred in the first one, "The Eye Creatures", in 1965. She was also cast in at least one episode of The Andy Griffith show. Fun flick ! Thanks for posting.
Cynthia is a beautiful human being. We enjoyed her visits to our home.
The title to the movie is engaging.
Thanks this was a good movie
We recorded the song Pushover on our Album, never knew it was in this movie.
I have been trying to acquire the rights to Pushover for years...
Good movie! I wish some how they could have stayed together. I know back then it would have been very hard, next to impossible. So sad!
I hope others that TUBE SEARCH, run across the clip and just give the movie a whirl, like I did.
Leo Martin, the only way I found out about this movie is I'm subscribed to this channel. So glad I did subscribe, because I'm enjoying what's being posted. If you're not subscribed, I highly recommend you do; you won't regret it. Take care!
Lovely intro music. So 1960s.
Even rich people have problems.🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Ya think??
Well give me s shot a being rich.ill have no problems at all. I promise I wont.
The first time rich do
This is a great movie. I'm gong to pick it up
An excellent movie!
You had me at " 2 men" lol. But seriously, interesting seeing older cinema.
The sketch of the woman on the thumbnail looks like Claudia Jordan, lol! 😂
Really good classic! Love it!
But CINDY does look mixed. She was a great talent.
@Michele Thomas That's awesome. She really PERFORMED without having to PERFORM.
Black people come in all shades from Midnight Black to Snow White and not a lick of white blood, Amazing no other race of people can say that.
@@hermanjr47 Growing up in Detroit, I've ran into black folks that was mixed ALL the time. And they were PROUD to be considered BLACK even though their hair texture is for "SOME" are VERY unique.
@@hermanjr47 But there are lots of races that are VERY DARK SKINNED, but have naturally straight or very curly hair, like the DRAVIDIANS who are native to the country of India.
@@leomartin1603 Dravidians are from Africa, which later migrated over to India.
The transgendered thing and the whole eroticism of this movie wasnt being put on FRONT in the 60's like it is now,,,, that's probably why I never heard of this.
@UC4qTV_CsY7jzUSanFham4jg The rich son that got kicked out the service for being CAUGHT with the HE/SHE.
Trans started in 1966
This is the only film I've ever seen, where the Screen Credits start with Introducing. Usually, the name of the actor being introduced appears last. Burt Lancaster was an exception. He made his screen debut in the 1946 film "The Killers" but got top Billing on screen.
Hi yellow is not an endearing term people its not about passing but a term use to describe a fair skinned Black person, Never liked the term growing up.
Dorothy Dandrige had the term used in movie...I don't remember so good, but she was acting as a nurse & went south to see her mom...really good...old timers illness of lost memory...!😅
Wow I was 10 yrs old when this came out
I was two.... Hello there Pamela
@@michaelgilmore3038 hi I didn't enjoy it as much plus it reminded how things where back then
I LOVE THE SONG AT THE END.
Check out Band of Angels (1957) with Sidney Poitier, Yvonne De Carlo, & Clark Gable.
I know this film is a miniscule portrayal of what life was like for melanated/"original coloureds", racially Black Americans then, during different earlier post-slavery years, but f*ck no! I couldn't... I'd snap and beat the... Just all of the overt, subtle disrespect and snarling responses from those pale skins for any respectable mannerisms, answers/replies were given. I can be just as blatant and aggressive... I will not tolerate that racist/anti-Black bs from any other - overt and covert. Anyways, this was an interesting and informative film of the many years of the past for the original coloureds/melanated/so-called racially Black Americans.
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Given the scenario not much has changed with the condescending and delusional servers of racism covert or overt. Yesterday the nickname was Miss Anne, today the name is Karen. Humans have much farther to go than they think.
Have you ever seen a noiose?
You a PUSHOVER..... that sh×t ROCKS, the beat and the message behind the song.
Is the actress biracial or white? She doesn't look like she could pass for white with her facial features.
It’s hard to tell but. I’m sure now. She’s mixed. Her hair makes it hard to tell tho
White according to the prior comments.
Shes is black😂😂❤
Shes half and half. What difference does it make? Shes beautiful.
@@adg_87she is black
They use to call my mom hi yaller (which I guess is the southern way of saying high yellow. Southerners are something else back in the days .
Great music
He’s Joseph but everybody calls him Joe ! No Shit !
U can tell this was a drive 🚗 In movie hear how it sounds also the movie reminds me of the twilight zone and Alfred Hitchcock mystery
I think fat joe or AZ used that last song on one of their late nineties or very early 2000 tracks.
Which one, please? I'd like to hear it
Reminds me of Imitation of Life a little bit😮
I never heard of this movie. 🤔
Great Music, and the movie just started!