Primetime Emmy |
| Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special |
I agree with Richard Fuller's review completely. There should have been a movie done from one of the student's point of view.
I first saw this movie in 1981, the first time shown on television. I likewise have the video.
The story of the efforts to bring about racial integration and the attempts to defeat it are well-defined in this excellent made for television movie in 1981.Joanne Woodward has never been better as English teacher Elizabeth Huckaby.
Had this been an actual historical event from the fifties about nine white kids, you can bet your bottom dollar Hollywood would have made a movie about it and updated every decade since the sixties. It would be a given.
