Discussion of "Something of Value"

Directed by Richard Brooks and based on Robert Ruark’s best-selling novel, Something of Value (1957) is a stark, challenging drama set against the backdrop of the Mau Mau Uprising in colonial Kenya. The story centers on two young men, Peter McKenzie (Rock Hudson), the son of a white rancher, and Kimani (Sidney Poitier), the son of a Kikuyu tribal leader. Raised together as brothers on the same farm, their childhood bond transcends race, but as they reach adulthood, the rigid social structures of British-ruled East Africa begin to pull them apart, forcing them into the roles of master and servant.

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