July 2001 Quotes from Lester Pine : From His Sickbed July 20, 2001

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Quotes from Lester Pine : From His Sickbed July 20, 2001 I had no idea so many people loved Claudine. It means that so many years after it came out, people remember it, and that is absolutely lovely. After so many movies depicting black people as violent and cruel, "Claudine" wasn't like that. "Claudine" was a nice picture about people who strive for exactly the same thing everyone else does: respectability. To be respected as human beings. I can't explain why "Claudine" hasn't ever come out on video, unless perhaps the studio was scared, because the film had some meaning to it. I would like to see "Claudine" come out on video, and that fans and filmmakers see it as a model: ordinary folks looking for something better. That kind of thing always makes a good picture. Back to Time For Some Action!