Checkerboard (1959)

7.0/10 • 125 min • Drama

Overview

In a small Gallic village, tourists are regaled by street entertainers and brash prostitutes. One of the tourists, a black girl named Bessie, falls in love with local villager Bob, and he with her. Soon racial tensions erupt volcanically among tourists and townsfolk alike. All is forgiven when the respective parents of the hero and heroine save the village's water supply.

Cast

Jacques Richard

Bob Stanley

Toto Bissainthe

Bessie Vance

Douta Seck

Vance

Grégoire Aslan

Stanley père

Roger Blin

Slim, le guide

Milly Vitale

Daura

Anne Carrère

La touriste

Nico Pepe

Le policier

Lucien Raimbourg

Le juge

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