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A Warm December (Original title)
Dates: 1972 (Copyright), 01 June 1973 (Release)

Countries: USA, United Kingdom

Director: Sidney Poitier

Synopsis: Story of a widowed Washington doctor's love for a beautiful African girl stricken by a rare disease.

Genre:
Romance

Subjects:
Sickle cell anaemia, Ethnic and religious communities in Great Britain, Tourism, Motocross
Releases
Date: 23 May 1973Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 101 mins Length: 9022 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: June 1973Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundRuntime: 101 mins Length: 9022 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Scotia-Barber Distributors Limited

Credits (32)
©: Verdon Productions, ©: First Artists Productions, National General Pictures, Presents: First Artists Productions, Producer: Melville Tucker, Unit Manager: Terence Clegg, Production Manager: Douglas Twiddy, Production Accountant: John Trehy, [Locations by]: Cinemobile, Assistant Director (1st): David Tomblin, Assistant to the Director: Malcolm Atterbury, [Assistant Director]: Brian Cook, [Assistant to the Director]: Harry Baird, Continuity: Doreen Soan, Written by: Lawrence Roman, Director of Photography: Paul Beeson, Camera Operator: Derek Browne, Editor: Pembroke J. Herring, Editor: Peter Pitt, Assistant Editor: Robert Richardson, Assistant Editor: Anthony Morris, Art Director: Elliot Scott, [Set decorator]: Norman Reynolds, Wardrobe Supervisor: John Wilson-Apperson, Make-up: W.T. Partleton, Hairdresser: Harold Melvin, Music Composed and Conducted by: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Sound Recordist: Claude Hitchcock, Gordon K. McCallum, Dubbing Editor: Allan Sones, Made at: Pinewood Studios
Cast (15)
Sidney Poitier (Matt Younger), Esther Anderson (Catherine), Yvette Curtis (Stefanie Younger), George Baker (Henry Barlow), Johnny Sekka (Myomo), Earl Cameron (George Oswandu), Hilary Crane (Marsha Barlow), John Beardmore ("Burberry"), Milos Kirek (General Kuznovski), Ann Smith (Carol Barlow), Stephanie Smith (Janie Barlow), Letta Mbulu (singer in club), Rudolph Walker, T.P. McKenna ([]), Zubaba ([band in nightclub])