Band of Angels is a 1957 romantic drama film set in the American South before and during the American Civil War. It starred Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, and Sidney Poitier. The movie was directed by Raoul Walsh.
The movie is based on Robert Penn Warren's "Band of Angels".Amantha Starr (Yvonne De Carlo) is the privileged daughter of a plantation owner. However, after he dies, a shocking secret is revealed: unbeknownst to Amantha, her mother had b...
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Band of Angels is a 1957 romantic drama film set in the American South before and during the American Civil War. It starred Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, and Sidney Poitier. The movie was directed by Raoul Walsh.
The movie is based on Robert Penn Warren's "Band of Angels".Amantha Starr (Yvonne De Carlo) is the privileged daughter of a plantation owner. However, after he dies, a shocking secret is revealed: unbeknownst to Amantha, her mother had been one of her father's black slaves. Legally now property, she is taken by a slave trader to New Orleans to be sold. On the riverboat ride there, he makes it clear that he intends to sleep with her, but desists when she tries to hang herself; as a beautiful, cultured young woman who can pass for white, she is far too valuable to risk losing.
Amantha is put up for auction. When she is callously inspected by a coarse potential buyer, she is rescued from further humiliation by Hamish Bond (Clark Gable), who outbids the cad, paying an exorbitant...
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