Dutchman (1967)

Dutchman is a 1966 British drama film directed by Anthony Harvey and starring Shirley Knight and Al Freeman, Jr. It was based on the play Dutchman by Amiri Baraka. John Barry wrote the score.

A sinister, neurotic white girl Lula, with the provocation of her lovely, half-naked body and of her startlingly lascivious speech, lures to his doom a good-looking young black man Clay, a stranger whom she has picked up in the subway and whom she mocks for wearing the clothes and employing the voice and manners of the conventional white intellectual. The man, who, at first seeing no reason to resist the girl's advances, perceives too late that he is being used by her, drops his "white" disguise, and launches a wild and bitter counterattack on her and on the entire white race.

Synopsis

On a subway train, a white woman takes a seat beside a black man and begins a conversation. She is aggressive and tries to be seductive. When the man flatly rejects her advances, the woman becomes loud and rude, insulting him and his race. The man, polite up to this point, begins responding in kind.

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