{"id":52351,"date":"2017-03-11T23:51:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T23:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52351"},"modified":"2017-03-12T01:31:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T01:31:57","slug":"lost-boundaries-1949-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52351","title":{"rendered":"Lost Boundaries (1949)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readthespirit.com\/visual-parables\/lost-boundaries-1949\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Lost Boundaries (1949)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readthespirit.com\/visual-parables\" target=\"_blank\">Visual Parables: <em>A leading resource for faith-and-film reviews and study guides<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n2014-05-24<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readthespirit.com\/visual-parables\/about-visual-parables\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ed McNulty<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readthespirit.com\/visual-parables\/lost-boundaries-1949\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/readthespirit.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/visual-parables\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2014\/05\/LostBndrs.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Not Rated. Running time: 1 hour 39 min.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Our content rating (1-10): V 0; L 1; S\/N 1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Our star rating (1-5): 4<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philip_Roth\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Roth\u2019s<\/a> novel and the film made from it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14387\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Human Stain<\/em><\/a>, were both very much on my mind when I came across at a Hollywood Video store the video of this 1949 film about a \u201cNegro\u201d man and his wife who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">pass for white<\/a> for twenty years. Seeing that its producer also was the producer for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Luther_(1953_film)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Martin Luther<\/em><\/a>, I felt that I was led to this discovery, and so purchased it. Turns out this is a good film, based on \u201ca true story\u201d from <em>Reader\u2019s Digest<\/em>. Made in the same year as the other film exploring the same theme, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pinky_(film)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pinky<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lost_Boundaries\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lost Boundaries<\/em><\/a> is not as well known, possibly because the former boasts a better-known director (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elia_Kazan\" target=\"_blank\">Elia Kazan<\/a>) than Alfred L. Werker and a far more star-studded cast (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeanne_Crain\" target=\"_blank\">Jeanne Crain<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethel_Barrymore\" target=\"_blank\">Ethel Barrymore<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethel_Waters\" target=\"_blank\">Ethel Waters<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Lundigan\" target=\"_blank\">William Lundigan<\/a>. The star of <em>Lost Boundaries<\/em> was the debut film of an actor who would go on to renown, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mel_Ferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mel Ferrer<\/a>. Like Jeanne Craine, Ferrer was a white playing a Negro, standard Hollywood procedure, even for major Asian roles, as in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Good_Earth_(film)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Good Earth<\/em><\/a> or <em>Shangri La<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readthespirit.com\/visual-parables\/lost-boundaries-1949\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Roth\u2019s novel and the film made from it, The Human Stain, were both very much on my mind when I came across at a Hollywood Video store the video of this 1949 film about a \u201cNegro\u201d man and his wife who pass for white for twenty years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,6462,20],"tags":[26424,26423,26422],"class_list":["post-52351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-ed-mcnulty","tag-visual-parables","tag-visual-parables-a-leading-resource-for-faith-and-film-reviews-and-study-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52356,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52351\/revisions\/52356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}