Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
- marriage proposal
- san francisco
- california
- vacation
- ruling class
- interracial relationship
- dinner
- doctor
- art gallery
- widower
- miscegenation
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Spencer Tracy
Matt Drayton
Sidney Poitier
John Prentice
Katharine Hepburn
Christina Drayton
Katharine Houghton
Joanna "Joey" Drayton
- Cecil Kellaway — Monsignor Ryan
- Beah Richards — Mrs. Prentice
- Roy Glenn — Mr. Prentice
- Isabel Sanford — Tillie
- Virginia Christine — Hilary St. George
- Alexandra Hay — Carhop
- Barbara Randolph — Dorothy
- D'Urville Martin — Frankie
- Tom Heaton — Peter
- Grace Gaynor — Judith
- Skip Martin — Delivery Boy
- Directed
- Stanley Kramer
- Written
- William Rose
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 919 ratings
- Studio
- Stanley Kramer Productions, Columbia Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
