| Title: | Sapphire | |
| Director 1: | Basil Dearden | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 1959 | |
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| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | feature film | |
| Screenwriter: | Janet Green | |
| Cinematographer: | Harry Waxman | |
| Editor: | John D. Guthridge | |
| Producer: | Michael Relph | |
| Production company: | Artna/Rank Organisation | |
| Cast: | Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig | |
| Location: | Not available | |
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| Synopsis: | In 1950s London, racial hostility to Commonwealth immigrants is openly paraded. A pregnant girl, initially assumed to be white, is murdered. As two detectives start to investigate, and discover her racial origins were much more mixed, public prejudices and those of the officers themselves are exposed. No viewing copy available. | |
| Keyword 1: | migration | |
| Keyword 2: | black | |
| Keyword 3: | racism | |
| Keyword 4: | crime | |
| Keyword 5: | London | |
| Keyword 6: | white | |
| Keyword 7: | police | |
| Keyword 8: | prejudice | |
| Keyword 9: | stereotype | |
| Keyword 10: | 1950s | |
| Text Reference 1: | The British 'Social Problem' Film: Violent Playground and Sapphire | |
| Text Reference 2: | Sapphire, Darling and the Boundaries of Permitted Pleasure | |
| Text Reference 3: | Representation and Blacks in British Cinema | |
| Text Reference 4: | The British 'Social Problem' Film: Violent Playground and Sapphire | |
| Text Reference 5: | Sapphire, Darling and the Boundaries of Permitted Pleasure | |
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