Such a frustrating disappointment

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Selina D'Arcey (Elizabeth Hartman) is the long suffering blind daughter of her mean-spirited prostitute mother Rose-Ann (Shelley Winters). When she was five, her father Harry got into a fight with her mother's date. Rose-Ann threw a bottle at Harry but hit Selina instead. They live with her grandpa Ole Pa in a rundown LA apartment. She yearns to spend the day in the park despite her mother's objection. She meets kindly office worker Gordon Ralfe (Sidney Poitier) who teaches the naive uneducated Selina. She doesn't know his color at first. The interracial romance causes friction. Her mother forbids it and his brother hates it. Poitier is playing the super nice black guy in this important movie. The acting is terrific. Winters is at her bombastic best. Hartman is sweet. Poitier is a bit too saintly but he needed to be for this movie to work at that time. That limits the heat in the relationship and that's the only drawback for me.

This movie is one of my all-time favorites. I first saw it back in the 1960s and have been haunted by it ever since. Just amazingly beautiful story, well acted and directed. Sidney Portier is such an amazing man and actor and this is his best film in my opinion, followed closely by To Sir With Love and Lillies of the Field.Shelley Winters portrayal of the hussy mother deserved an Oscar. She was really mean in this movie. Old Pa was perfectly cast. Elizabeth Hartman simply gave the performance of a lifetime in her role as Selina.The bittersweet story will grip you from beginning to end. They just don't make 'em like this anymore.

This film is sad and effective,touching and indelible. Elizabeth Hartman is very sympathetic in this role as a blind teenager, growing up in a borderline white-trash home, with an alcoholic grandfather,and promiscuous down-at-heel mother,capably portrayed by Shelley Winters.Sidney Poitier delivers another effective performance here,as a sympathetic friend to Selena (Hartman) who tries to help better her life,even as his brother,a med student tells him to forget it, Selena is a hopeless case from "a human trash heap".The performances are touching and understated as one feels what it may be like to live as a disabled blind woman. Hartman is trampled and pushed to the ground simply because street people have no time to help her. The world is a cold place, but Poitier offers his friendship and compassion as a small patch of blue in Selena's otherwise dark world. Highly recommended.9/10.

"A patch of blue" (1965) directed by Guy Green is a movie about the blindness of a young lady and by this happening was doing as event a date as a different kind of sensuality and also melodramatic sensibleness like is shown on the scene where the book "Light in a dark world" is delaying among friends. The musicality inspired by the synchronized sound track with the true melodramatic family story of smashed low class, from a single mother with her daughter cohabiting with an old man at home, after such an involuntary tragedy of the past - the acid thrown by a fellow of the mother during a dispute at home, before the awakening of the child at night which by error blind her little daughter - brings us the chock of mentalities. All the subject is illustrated by this, which means also that this movie as fiction beside a reconstructed reality out of framework, having by this track a sound well conceived with an elaborated sense of orientation in that preciosity, touching the viewer for anything like more than complicity between two complementary characters. Namely between the fifties of police overwhelming presence at any corner by night as though it was the end of the world for tomorrow and the sixties with much more democratic values on the streets just before unrest on spirituality. The collective culpability that inspires this movie at the time, includes as well as if it was in the scene of the park also with the manifest indifference for this almost family affair by the occasional citizens that assisting such an incident between mother and daughter. Conflict barely closed on the spot with the silent opportunity by the occasional witnesses of good taste and by this way winning the trend by a well done acting. Namely by the young character of Sidney Poitier as if it was a beautiful black athlete. It is ironically this kind of appointment and a little bit of fake brotherhood happens here, notwithstanding the solidarity manifested in a kind of portrait as anti-hero of the hour and exception to the rule, which is quite exceptionally even at that moment. Which is watched and showed at the redaction office of a local newspaper, where is another acquaintance at the time of the fight for civil rights and brings some consideration to the happening as unexpected encounter between two human kinds with different color skins.