Shadows

About Shadows

The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.

Shadows is a 1960 drama film directed by John Cassavetes. Ben Carruthers takes the lead as Ben, Lelia Goldoni as Lelia, Hugh Hurd as Hugh, and Anthony Ray as Tony.

At 87 minutes long, it arrived in October 1960. Written by John Cassavetes.

Shelv files it under jazz and passing for white. It streams on Criterion Channel, HBO Max, and HBO Max Amazon Channel in the United States. It scores 6.9 out of 10 from 279 TMDB voters and it carries a PG rating.