Take a Giant Step

Spence Scott is a teenager of high school age. He is the son of a Black family. The family lives in a well kept white neighbourhood. Spence attends a private school. Most of his friends are white. One day he argues with a teacher in class. After the argument he is expelled. Back home he goes to his grandmother. He wants her advice. He feels like a stranger everywhere. He goes to a bar in a Black neighbourhood. There too he does not find the place he was looking for. Then he starts talking with Christine, the housekeeper. She tells him her own story. Johnny Nash and Ruby Dee appear in the hundred minute film, an American production Philip Leacock finished in 1959.