This biography of Jackie Robinson is not a great film.

More than anything it represents a significant milestone in baseball and the civil right movement.

Jackie doesn't do a terrible acting job which you don't really notice because the screen play, although light, is very face paced.

The viewer is rocketed through the life of a young pre-teen Jackie Robinson, his football college career, touches on his military service in the second world war, his minor league career, and through his 1949 season with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Date : 1950
Cast : Jackie Robinson as Himself
Ruby Dee as Rachel Robinson
Minor Watson as Branch Rickey
Louise Beavers as Jackie's mother
Dick Lane (TV announcer) as Clay Hopper
Harry Shannon (actor) as Frank Shaughnessy
Ben Lessy as Shorty
William H.

Spaulding as Himself
Billy Wayne as Clyde Sukeforth
Joel Fluellen as Mack Robinson (athlete)
Bernie Hamilton as Ernie
Kenny Washington (American football) as Tigers Manager
Pat Flaherty (actor) as Karpen
Larry McGrath as Umpire
Emmett Smith as Catcher
Howard Louis MacNeely as Jackie as a boy
George Dockstader as Bill