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Edge of the City: Friendship, Cowardice and Racism
by Robert Bellissimo Edge Of The City (1957) was expanded from the 1955 live-for-televison play, “A Man Is Ten Feet Tall”, which was specifically written for Sidney Poitier. It broke ground at the time for depicting a close friendship between a black man and a white man. Integration was a hot topic then, and the film couldn’t…