Product Details

• Actors: Paul Winfield, James Bond III, Olivia Cole, Roderick Wimberly, Rosalind Cash
• Directors: Stan Lathan
• Writers: Gus Edwards, James Baldwin, Leslie Lee
• Producers: Calvin Skaggs
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Monterey Video
• DVD Release Date: February 3, 2004
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000YEEL2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,752 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Go Tell It on the Mountain" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Features include:

•MPAA Rating: NR
•Format: DVD
•Runtime: 96 minutes

Customer Reviews

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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT ADAPTATION, October 1, 2001

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Bonita L. Davis - See all my reviews

This review is from: Go Tell It on the Mountain [VHS] (VHS Tape)

John Grimes is a sensitive young teenager who bears the daily criticism of his step-father. As he endures the redicule, resentment and anger of this man, John tries to understand himself and the world he is to inherit.

Go Tell It On The Mountain takes us on the journey of southern Black men and women as they attempt to survive in their rural south and run away to the urban north. While up "north", you witness their escapism into sanctified religion, the pull of the streets on their children, the secrets in their hearts and the bitterness of unfulfilled dreams.

Told from the perspective of John, the viewer sees a cultural change and transition in the lives of these new residents of urban America. Join in the pulsating rhythms of the sanctified store-front churches. Feel the needs of young people who want to be free but are held in bondage by the fundamentalist mindsets of their elders. What is most intriguing about the film is Gabriel, John's step-father. His life, loss, bitterness and inability to fully accept John shows what happens to a man who has no anchor.

An outstanding cast of actors portray the characters in this great film. Even though this is an adaption of James Baldwin's work of the same name it doesn't follow the book in its entirety. We get a deeper sense of the psychological forces that shaped John's parents and their world than from the book. In fact this film enhances the book and I highly recommend its viewing.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Rare story, November 9, 2005

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Khrish (Richmond, Virginia USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Go Tell It on the Mountain (DVD)

This film provides a rare opportunity for you to get a peek into the life of suthor, James Baldwin. If you are not an ardent reader, you will know little of this wonderful writer. I only wish that there will be a biography on film of this man. Until that comes along, this is the only film that I have seen that gives you an inside of his life.

3.0 out of 5 stars Is Gaberil a hypocrite...?, August 30, 2011

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Michele Greene "Michele Greene" (Jacksonville,FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Go Tell It on the Mountain (DVD)

This movie was o.k. I gave 3 stars because it was just o.k. But in this movie the preacher Gaberil was more of hypocrite than anyone. And I believe they were playing with the Holyghost. He is not to be played with.