List of the best Roy E. Glenn Sr. movies: Carmen Jones(1954), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner(1967), Perils of the Jungle(1953), A Raisin in the Sun(1961), The Sound and the Fury(1959), Escape From the Planet of the Apes(1971), Porgy and Bess(1959) ... ...
Musical
USA
1954
105 Minutes
Dorothy Dandridge Harry Belafonte Pearl Bailey Olga James Diahann Carroll Roy E. Glenn Sr. Nick Stewart Joe Adams Brock Peters Sandy Lewis Mauri Lynn
sexy woman soldier fugitive love interest sergeant emotional sultry suspenseful louisiana nightclub chicago army camp jealousy seduction love triangle war murder obsession forbidden love rivalry
Contemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1967
108 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn Sidney Poitier Katharine Houghton Cecil Kellaway Beah Richards Roy E. Glenn Sr. Virginia Christine Isabel Sanford
fiancée doctor father mother priest maid powerful amusing emotional san francisco family home hawaii racism culture clash parenthood marriage forbidden love 1960s
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.
Adventure
USA
1953
68 Minutes
Clyde Beatty Phyllis Coates Stanley Farrar John Doucette Leonard Mudie Joel Fluellen Roy E. Glenn Sr. Olaf Hytten
Hunter tracks down lions on the Congo jungle.
Drama
USA
1961
128 Minutes
Sidney Poitier Claudia McNeil Ruby Dee Diana Sands Ivan Dixon John Fiedler Louis Gossett Jr. Stephen Perry Joel Fluellen Roy E. Glenn Sr. Ray Stubbs
son mother wife widow sister suitor emotional moving chicago apartment american dream aspirations family racism social change money love discovery underdog 1950s
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
Drama
USA
1959
115 Minutes
Yul Brynner Joanne Woodward Margaret Leighton Stuart Whitman Ethel Waters Jack Warden Francoise Rosay John Beal Albert Van Dekker Stephen Perry Roy E. Glenn Sr.
teen girl stepbrother mother carnival worker mentally disabled person alcoholic brooding sultry mississippi small town family home family dysfunction teen angst forbidden love mother/daughter relationship alcoholism small-town life transformation 1950s
Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect.
Sci-Fi
USA
1971
98 Minutes
Roddy McDowall Kim Hunter Bradford Dillman Natalie Trundy Eric Braeden William Windom Sal Mineo Albert Salmi Jason Evers John Randolph Harry Lauter
apes scientist astronaut dark suspenseful los angeles prison ship animal cruelty scientific experiments husband/wife relationship murder pregnancy escape 1970s
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a U.S. spacecraft. They become the toast of society, but one man believes them to be a threat to the human race.
Musical, Drama, Romance
USA
1959
138 Minutes
Sidney Poitier Rouben Mamoulian Dorothy Dandridge Sammy Davis Jr. Pearl Bailey Brock Peters Leslie Scott Diahann Carroll Ruth Attaway Clarence Muse Everdinne Wilson
poor person drug addict african-american disabled person drug dealer beautiful woman emotional melodramatic sultry charleston, s.c. shantytown catfish row love triangle poverty drug addiction romantic dilemma hard times difficult decision underdog love
A woman whose past is scorned by nearly everyone around her meets a man who'd love her regardlessly- if only everyone else would allow them to.