La Joven AKA The Young One (1960)
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Game warden Miller lives on an isolated island off the Carolina coast. The only other inhabitant is Evvie, an innocent and naive thirteen-year-old girl. Miller is sexually attracted to the girl.
When Traver, a black musician on the run from a lynch mob after being falsely accused of rape, arrives on the island Miller wants to turn him in and get him out of his way. But Evvie likes Traver and protects him. When a preacher arrives from the mainland to "rescue" Evvie from her situation, Traver's presence is discovered. Miller is now forced to decide whether to turn Traver over to the mob and in so doing lose his standing in the girl's eyes.
[Image]Set in the American South on a remote coastal island, a black man fleeing a lynch mob meets a white sheriff and a recently orphaned 13 year old white girl. How would a true innocent react to encroaching absurdities such as racism, unwanted sexual advances, and tyranny? Bunuel provides the multifaceted answers in this stupendous masterpiece.
Listed at moviegirls.
Originally posted by jules at fileheaven :applause:
Rich