Flame in the Streets (DVD) Strawberry

Versatile director Roy Baker tackles the question of racial bias in this effective drama. Jacko Palmer (John Mills) is a dedicated, talented union leader who manages to mediate an upheaval over a black foreman at work and prevent a strike. Meanwhile, Palmer’s daughter Kathie (Sylvia Syms) has fallen in love with a schoolteacher colleague of hers, Peter Lincoln who happens to be black. The couple plan on marrying, and that creates havoc in the Palmer home where Kathie’s mother throws a fit. The full gamut of racial prejudices unfolds, while the father tries to reconcile his own feelings and root out any biases that lurk there.