Bright Road is a 1953 low-budget film adapted from the Christopher Award-winning short story "See How They Run" by Mary Elizabeth Vroman. Directed by Gerald Mayer and featuring a nearly all-black cast, the film stars Dorothy Dandridge as an idealistic first-year elementary school teacher trying to reach out to a problem student. The movie is also notable as the first feature film appearance by Harry Belafonte, who co-stars as the principal of the school. Jane Richards is a new teacher, beginning her career at a rural African-American elementary school in Alabama. One of the students in her... fourth-grade class is C.T. Young , who, although bright and generally not a troublemaker, is nonetheless markedly disinterested in school and has become accustomed to taking two years to advance through each grade level. Miss Richards becomes determined to get through to C.T. and have her class be the first that does not take him two years to complete, though the school's other teachers have given up on him as "a backward child". The school's principal also harbors his doubts about C.T.
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| Release date: | April 17, 1953 |
| Directed by: | Gerald Mayer |
| Runtime: | 68 Minutes |
| Producer: | Sol Baer Fielding |
| Editor: | Joseph Dervin |
| Music by: | David Rose |
| Cinematography: | Alfred Gilks |
| Screenplay by: | Emmet Lavery |
| Adapted from: | See How They Run |