This is a collection of media from the initial releases of "Macumba Love" (1960) in the Pacific Northwest. "Take a Giant Step" (1959) was the co-hit in Seattle and Portland.
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Macumba Love (1960)
A writer who specializes in exposing fake witchcraft journeys to Brazil to investigate a voodoo cult.
Director: Douglas Fowley
Writer: Norman Graham
Stars: Walter Reed, Ziva Rodann, William Wellman Jr.
Take a Giant Step (1959)
black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle-class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War emphasized in his history class, he storms out and gets caught smoking a cigar in the boys' room.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writers: Louis S. Peterson, Julius J. Epstein
Stars: Johnny Nash, Estelle Hemsley, Ruby Dee
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June 14, 1960 ad (Portland)
June 13, 1960 ad (Portland)
June 15, 1960 ad (Portland)
June 16, 1960 ad (Portland)
June 21, 1960 ad (Seattle)
June 22, 1960 ad (Seattle)
June 22, 1960 ad (Seattle)
June 24, 1960 ad (Seattle)
Macumba Love (1960) poster
Take a Giant Step (1959) poster
Macumba Love (1960) trailer
