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You forgot "The Defiant Ones" with Tony Curtis.

I didn’t forget it because I didn’t see it. I don’t care for Tony Curtis, and he could never babysit my children.

Thanks to you guys, I just watched "The Defiant Ones" over the past two nights. That was an outstanding film! Thanks for the recommendation. I saw sides to both Poitier and Curtis I hadn't seen before.

It was a fascinating treatment of race relations in the 50s. Unfortunately, the leftists have led us right back to that era of race relations erasing all progress that was made.

I watched it on "Kanopy," some streaming service that seems to specialize in obscure and older films. I put the app on my Roku and was able to stream it to my big tv. The picture and sound quality were excellent.

I found that it won two Academy Awards (back when the Academy Awards meant something:

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen. Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith. Nedrick Young had been blacklisted at the time and the Oscar went to his pseudonym 'Nathan E. Douglas'. In 1993 AMPAS restored Young's credit upon the request of his widow and recommendation of the Academy's writers branch.
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White - Sam Leavitt

The cinematography was truly outstanding. Many of the scenes left me wondering "How did they film that?"

It also won the Golden Globes Best Motion Picture - Drama in 1959.