Monday Night at the Movies "A Raisin in the Sun"

The Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" received four Tony awards.  The film version two years later featured the original cast.  The Youngers are an African American family living in squalid rooms on Chicago's south side.  When the head of the family dies, his widow (Claudia McNeil) receives a life insurance payment.  She decides to move the family to a new house, but it is in a white neighborhood.  The local "improvement association" tries to buy them out.  Meanwhile, the eldest son (Sidney Poitier) invests the bulk of the money in a liquor store and is swindled out of it.  The contentious family dynamics, marked by frustration and sacrifice, are played out against the backdrop of stifling racial prejudice.