"This English-produced film about South African apartheid standsin remarkable contrast to the contemporaneous Hollywood films about racerelations in the U.S. No fantasies of amelioration or reconciliation areindulged. The novelist Alan Paton, who was credited with the screenplay,expressed dismay over the radical slant John Howard Lawson gave his material.Cry, the Beloved Country gave the African-American actor Canada Lee, driven to apremature death by the blacklist in 1952, his final and finest role." (TA,NB) This moving, eloquent film chronicles the journey of Reverend Stephen Kumalo(Canada Lee) to Johannesburg in search of his son. As he witnesses theintolerance and poverty that diminish the black slum residents' everyday lives,he cries out for humanitarian gestures. One of the Hollywood Ten, Lawson wasblacklisted and emigrated to Mexico. This was his last serious effortfor Hollywood.