Band of Angels

1957

Adventure / Drama / Western

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 65% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 65% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 2801 2.8K

plantation slave slave trade biracial southern belle american civil war

Plot summary

Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.

Director

Raoul Walsh Photo
Raoul Walsh

Top cast

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Photo
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Lt. Ethan Sears
Harry Fleer Photo
Harry Fleer as Aide
John Roy Photo
John Roy as Auction Guest
Jack Williams Photo
Jack Williams as Runaway
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1.14 GB
1280*724
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 7 min
Seeds 1
2.12 GB
1912*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 7 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by rickrudge 7 / 10

It's not meant to be a GWTW

Reviewed by Nazi_Fighter_David 7 / 10

The story of a woman who denies her own people in turbulent time

The world was full of all colors during the time leading up to the Civil War in the South…The cry for freedom was in the air like a rising wind… Slaves have already gone wild on many plantations but not yet on Pointe du Loup, Louisiana, where it was still serene…Hamish Bond maintains a plantation outside New Orleans… At the slave mart he buys a beautiful girl for $5,000… She is the daughter of a supposedly wealthy Kentucky planter… After her father's death she discovered he has left her nothing but debts… She also discovered her mother was a black slave and that, according to the custom of the time, she is classified of Negro blood and literally sold down the river to discharge her father's debts…Amantha Starr is horrified and degraded at the treatment she—a well-bred white girl—receives when she becomes classified as a woman of mixed race… Hamish doesn't relegate the proud dark-haired woman to slave quarters but treats her as a lady in his household, where romance develops… Clark Gable plays the New Orleans wealthy gentleman who got a past he'd like to forget… He knows better than most men that money is no cure-all… He used to think it was… He used to think it would open the door to friendship and other essentials more important than power… He used to believe it was everything: a drug for loneliness, a painkiller for certain memories, the whole apothecary shop for every problem of life… He bought the attractive Amantha because she was on the slave block… Somebody else was bound to bid her on… That fellow with laced cuffs putting his hands on her and he hates lace cuffs…Yvonne de Carlo plays Amantha, the lady of quality with Negro heritage… She didn't go on her way north, nor she jumped the boat at Pointe du Loup… She has suffered, and she always will, with Hamish or without him… There always will be the fires, the memories because she loves him, and because he's the only man she ever loved, or ever will…The young Sidney Poitier plays the rebellious ambitious chief slave Rau-Ru who gets off the sidewalk for nobody… No constable or paddy roll ever stopped him…No steamboat captain ever asked to see his pass… Will he feels lucky enough to deliver his boss to the hangman one day?
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