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...Michael Roemer left Harvard in 1949 with an A.B. in English, and entered the movie industry as a director's on-location stenographer. He got the job because a film he and his classmate Robert Young had made in college was mentioned in Life magazine. Fifteen years later the same pair hunted up 48 investors and made, practically by themselves, the film which represented the U.S. at Venice. They wrote the script of Nothing But A Man together; Roemer directed it, and Young photographed...
...know anything at all about Negroes," Michael Roemer says in discussing his film--" except what I know about myself." Roemer and his colleague Robert Young address their film to individuals; it is not a manifesto or an appeal. The hero is a young Negro in the south, trying to be a man, a father to his child, a husband to his wife...
This movie was shot like a documentary--in real rooms, real cars, without mood music or discursive photographic comment. But only extremely skilled artists could have projected the tense intimacy between Duff and his wife, or Duff and his father, onto the screen. Young and Roemer didn't satisfy themselves with gestures or homey evocations...
Michael A. Roemer '49, co-writer, director, and co-producer of Nothing But a Man, a low-budget motion picture opening tomorrow in Boston, will speak on "Films and Film-Making" at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the Adams House Junior Common Room...
Made for a mere $230,000 by two young TV documentarists (Michael Roemer and Robert Young), Man is a polemic that does not preach. To begin with, it is careful to state that the black man is no black angel. The hero, played by Actor Dixon with a knowing mixture of shrewdness and spontaneity, is courageous but confused, decent but primitive. When he brags that he is "runnin' free," he really means he is running away from the Negro he is and secretly despises; when the white man bullies him, he hates it so much he turns right around...