Bright Road

Jane Richards has just started teaching. Her school is in Alabama. The children who attend it are black. One of her pupils is called C.T. Young. C.T. has taken two years over every grade. Everyone else has written him off, and Jane will not accept it. She sets out to get him through in the normal time. What holds his attention is not the classroom but insects. Jane starts from that interest. Slowly a way through opens up. Then a friend in his class dies and C.T. falls back, but she still does not give up. The film comes from a story by Mary Elizabeth Vroman. Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte appear in the sixty eight minute film, an American production Gerald Mayer finished in 1953.