{"id":6864,"date":"2009-05-15T12:29:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T19:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=6864"},"modified":"2023-01-02T00:31:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T07:31:27","slug":"go-man-go-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=6864","title":{"rendered":"Go, Man, Go! (1954)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;We&#8217;re a team that&#8217;s going places &#8212; and in no time, we&#8217;ll be the greatest in the world!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Go-Man-Go-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Go-Man-Go-Poster-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-60561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Go-Man-Go-Poster-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Go-Man-Go-Poster-84x128.jpg 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Go-Man-Go-Poster-178x270.jpg 178w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Go-Man-Go-Poster.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nPromoter Abe Saperstein (Dane Clark) and his assistant Inman Jackson (Sidney Poitier) bring the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team to fame.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>African-Americans<\/li>\n<li>Basketball<\/li>\n<li>Ruby Dee Films<\/li>\n<li>Sidney Poitier Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nNever released on video or DVD, this underground cult favorite &#8212; directed by cinematographer James Wong Howe, and starring real-life <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem_globetrotters\">Harlem Globetrotters<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goose_Tatum\">Reece &#8216;Goose&#8217; Tatum<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sweetwater_Clifton\">&#8216;Sweetwater&#8217; Clifton<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marques_Haynes\">Marques Haynes<\/a> &#8212; tells the inspirational story of the Trotters&#8217; rise to fame during the first half of the 20th century. The story arc itself &#8212; small-time players make it big through talent, hard work, and the dogged perseverance of their committed leader &#8212; is rather conventional, as is the gratuitous subplot in which Saperstein meets and quickly weds his beauty-queen wife (Patricia Breslin). What&#8217;s much more interesting are the implicit racial dynamics at play, as the Trotters (considered merely clownish amateurs) repeatedly compete against &#8220;legitimate&#8221; all-white teams; one wishes this theme could be handled at least somewhat more overtly, though the film remains daring simply in its easy acceptance of (Jewish) Saperstein&#8217;s friendship with Poitier and the other team members. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great fun to see the Trotters performing some of their classic routines &#8212; and even for non-sports fans, the final climactic game (against the Chicago Majors) is genuinely thrilling! Sidney Poitier (just 27 years old) is fine if a tad underused in one of his earliest roles, while &#8220;everyman&#8221; actor Dane Clark projects just the right level of enthusiasm and energy required of iconoclast Saperstein. It&#8217;s interesting to note that, with the exception of a few unusual camera angles, there isn&#8217;t really much evidence here of Howe&#8217;s masterful camerawork (though to be fair, it&#8217;s hard to accurately assess this, given the damaged quality of the bootleg I secured). Film fanatics will be curious to learn that the movie&#8217;s producer and screenwriter, Alfred Palca, was blacklisted and had his name taken off the film (the pseudonym Arnold Becker was used instead); click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1997\/08\/20\/nyregion\/four-decades-after-he-was-blacklisted-a-writer-producer-finally-gets-credit.html?sec=&#038;spon=\">here<\/a> to read more. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dane Clark as Abe Saperstein<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/go-man-go-clark.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/go-man-go-clark.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6866\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Enjoyable footage of the Trotters&#8217; comedic moves<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/go-man-go-tricks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/go-man-go-tricks.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6867\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>The incredibly exciting final game of the film<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/go-man-go-final2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/go-man-go-final2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6868\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Slim Galliard&#8217;s jazzy score<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, as an underground cult favorite.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cult Movie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0047032\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/review?_r=1&#038;res=9A01E2DE1738E23BBC4852DFB566838F649EDE\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmovie.com\/work\/93354\">All Movie Guide Article<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re a team that&#8217;s going places &#8212; and in no time, we&#8217;ll be the greatest in the world!&#8221; Synopsis: Promoter Abe Saperstein (Dane Clark) and his assistant Inman Jackson (Sidney Poitier) bring the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team to fame. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: African-Americans Basketball Ruby Dee Films Sidney Poitier Films Review: Never released on video or DVD, this underground cult favorite &#8212; directed by cinematographer James Wong Howe, and starring real-life Harlem Globetrotters Reece &#8216;Goose&#8217; Tatum, &#8216;Sweetwater&#8217; Clifton,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=6864\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6864"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89183,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions\/89183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}