Product Description

Spain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),Spanish ( Subtitles ),SPECIAL FEATURES: Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Scene Access,SYNOPSIS: Luis Buсuel and Hugo Butler (under the pseudonym "H.B. Addis") adapted Peter Matthiessen's story Travelin' Man for this drama about a black jazz musician, on the run from a false accusation of raping a white woman. Miller (Zachary Scott) is a middle aged handyman on a small island off the southeastern coast. His neighbors are a 13-year-old girl and her grandfather. After her grandfather dies, Miller looks after the young girl, and they are the only two on the island until the arrival of Traver (Bernie Hamilton), a black man fleeing a lynch mob that suspects him of rape. In Miller's absence, Traver gives the girl money for supplies and a gun. Returning to the island, Miller tries to kill Traver until he realizes no harm has come to the girl and Traver is allowed to escape when Miller is convinced of his innocence. Miller then announces his intentions to marry the girl and save her from some meddling church officials who wish to take her away.
SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cannes Film Festival,

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #146198 in DVD
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Subtitled in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 95 minutes

Features

• THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER

Customer Reviews

Years ahead of its time!
I was surprised by how fresh it felt even though it's close to fifty years old. Worth having in your DVD library.

When one hand washes the other one!
A black man is unfairly accused of violation, and forced to escape until the state of things descends of this boiling point. So, he will arrive to an island, where a very attractive but extremely young girl (maybe she is in her twelve) be seduced the master of that home, once she became orphan of her only parent, a drunken old man.

So, when a priest arrives to the island (once he was informed she is orphan) , the explosive truth will exposes itself, and the pretended change of attitude of this miserable human being respect the black man.

Devastating and brutal description of what the level of overlooking positions may become.

Disturbing Portrait of Racism and Pedophilia
(...) Bernie Hamilton played a defiant black man in Luis Buñuel's little seen film, LA JOVEN (released in the U.S. as THE YOUNG ONE with English dialog). The story involves Travers (Hamilton), a jazz musician that narrowly escapes a lynch mob. He finds refuge on an isolated island, where he encounters an unabashed racist named Miller (Zachary Scott).

This picture distinguishes itself from typical "race problem" movies in that Travers is not the familiar "ebony saint" character played by the likes of Sidney Poitier. Here Travers does not take any mess from Miller -- and lives to tell about it.

Miller on the other hand is one of the most vile and despicable characters ever to grace the silver screen. Not only is Miller a bigot, but a pedophile too. When Miller is not spewing racial slurs at Travers, he's trying to bed Evalyn (Key Meersman), the recently orphaned girl next door.

LA JOVEN may not be one of Luis Buñuel's finest films, but it is certainly one of his most disturbing and provocative. Buñuel aficionados and those interested in the portrayal of African American men in early 1960s films, will find much fuel for discussion long after LA JOVEN has been shown.