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Based on the story, "See How They Run," which ran in the June, 1951 issue of "The Ladies' Home Journal" and subsequently won that year's Christopher Award. The story was written by Mary Elizabeth Vroman, a fourth-generation school teacher from the British West Indies. "Bright Road" has only one white actor in the cast, Robert Horton. Jane Richards is a young 4th-grade teacher in the South who has a problem in her classroom with 11-year-old C.T. Young, a backward boy whose pride has made him a stubborn rebel and an exalted liar.

Genres: Drama

Starring: Dorothy Dandridge, Philip Hepburn, Harry Belafonte

Released: April 17, 1953

Runtime: 68.0

Popularity Rating: 0.116

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

United States of America

Jane Richards Dorothy Dandridge
C.T. Young Philip Hepburn
School Principal Harry Belafonte
Tanya Barbara Randolph
Dr. Mitchell Robert Horton
Tanya's Mother Maidie Norman
Booker T. Jones Rene Beard
Boyd Howard McNeeley
Lloyd Robert McNeeley
Rachel Smith Patti Marie Ellis

Art — Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons
Art — Art Direction: Eddie Imazu
Art — Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis
Art — Set Decoration: Jacques Mapes
Camera — Director of Photography: Alfred Gilks
Costume & Make-Up — Hairstylist: Sydney Guilaroff
Costume & Make-Up — Makeup Artist: William Tuttle
Crew — Special Effects: A. Arnold Gillespie
Directing — Director: Gerald Mayer
Editing — Editor: Joseph Dervin
Production — Producer: Sol Baer Fielding
Sound — Music: David Rose
Writing — Story: Mary Elizabeth Vroman
Writing — Writer: Emmet Lavery