Sept. 19, 1964 - Premiering tonight at the New York Film Festival is “Nothing but a Man,” an independent drama starring Ivan Dixon and Abbey Lincoln and directed by Michael Roemer, who also co-wrote the film with Robert M. Young.
The film, shot on a budget of $300,000, tells the story of Duff Anderson (Dixon), a Negro railroad worker who tries to maintain his dignity in a small racist town near Birmingham, Alabama, after he marries the local preacher’s daughter (Lincoln). In addition to dealing with threats and discrimination, Anderson must come to terms with his troubled relationship with his own father, a pitiful alcoholic who abandoned and rejected him.
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