Black Like Me (film)

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Black Like Me
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Carl Lerner
Screenplay by	Carl Lerner Gerda Lerner
Based on	Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Produced by	Julius Tannenbaum
Starring	James Whitmore
Cinematography	Victor Lukens Henry Mueller II
Edited by	Lora Hays
Music by	Meyer Kupferman
Production company	The Hilltop Company
Distributed by	Continental Distributing
Release date	May 20, 1964 (1964-05-20)
Running time	107 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English

Black Like Me is a 1964 American drama film based on the 1961 book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin. The journalist disguised himself to pass as an African-American man for six weeks in 1959 in the Deep South to report on life in the segregated society from the other side of the color line. The film was directed by Carl Lerner and the screenplay was written by Carl and Gerda Lerner. The film stars James Whitmore, Sorrell Booke and Roscoe Lee Browne.