Sounder

Sounder (film) Sounder is a 1972 film starring Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews, Taj Mahal , and Eric Hooks. It was adapted by Lonne Elder III and directed by Martin Ritt from the 1970 Newbery Medal-winning novel...

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...Jones. Winfield's 1972 performance in "Sounder" as a Louisiana sharecropper struggling to provide for his family during the Depression was a stark contrast to the "blaxploitation" movies of the era, like "Shaft" and "Superfly." But his...

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...works and has high emotional intelligence. Lastly, the boy had grown emotionally from his previous younger years when he predicts Sounder's oncoming death and chooses to make preparations in advance. In 1972, Sounder was made into a film...

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...three children) as they struggle to survive the early years of the Great Depression. Like much of Ritt's work, "Sounder" seems to be a preprogrammed thesis film following a traditional liberal template that requires the black characters...

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...role to be In 2003, Hooks revisited Sounder. He directed ABC 's Wonderful World of Disney's TV remake of the film, with Paul Winfield, his co-star from the original, playing a different role. Hooks was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,...

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