Go, Man, Go

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(1954)

Dane Clark, Pat Breslin, Sidney Poitier, Edmond Ryan. History of the Globetrotters from their inception in 1927 by white manager Abe Saperstein. Clark plays Saperstein and Poitier plays an assistant coach. Much better than the previous effort. "Meadowlark" Lemon, in his first of 24 years with the Globetrotters, Ermer Robinson and Willie Gardner were the stars of the team in '54. The film was actually made in 1953 and directed by James Wong Howe, the famed cinematographer. [The name of the opposing white team was omitted in the movie for fear of a box office flop if an all-black team defeated a “known” white team. These were Red Klotz's famous teams variously known as the Washington Generals, Boston Shamrocks, Baltimore Rockets, New York Nationals, Atlantic City Seagulls, and the New Jersey Reds, which started regularly playing the Trotters in '53.