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The Red Ball Express : Robinson's Fight and Request to LT

As the Red Ball Express takes a coffee break, a fight breaks out between Corporal Robinson (Sidney Poitier) and a racist soldier. After Lieutenant Campbell (Jeff Chandler) breaks them up, Robinson requests a transfer.

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beat, action, dialogue, dissolve, dolly shot, full shot, hard lighting, long shot, medium close-up, medium shot, over the shoulder shot, shot/reverse shot, source lighting, tracking shot, two-shot

Diversity in Media Representation

Black: African-American, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, White: White American

"Robinson's Fight and Request to LT" in The Red Ball Express. Directed by Budd Boetticher, Universal International Pictures, 1952, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2646

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Edwin Cruz-Castillo

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