Continuing the reviews of African-Americans in film in chronological order for Black History Month, we're now at 1965 when Sidney Poitier stars as Gordon Ralfe in this movie about his mentoring a poor blind young woman whom he meets one day when she comes to the park for the first time. Her name is Selina D'Arcey (Elizabeth Hartman) and she has had to endure an abusive relationship with her mother Rose-Ann (Shelley Winters) and an alcoholic grandfather known as Old Pa (Wallace Ford). When she comes with Gordon to his apartment, his brother Mark (Ivan Dixon) warns him about the ramifications if anyone sees them though Gordon doesn't think he's that serious about her. I'll stop there and just say this was a very touching story handled sensitively by Poitier and Ms. Hartman. And Ms. Winters deserves her Oscar for making Rose-Ann such a hard woman to like though occasionally she does provide some humorous moments too. And after previously seeing Dixon as both Joseph Asagai in Poitier's A Raisin in the Sun and Duff Anderson in Nothing But a Man, he gives another fine performance here especially when he and Poitier are discussing the pros and cons of what Ms. Hartman's presence means in their apartment. One more thing I'd like to praise is Jerry Goldsmith's score. Such beautiful music! So on that note, A Patch of Blue is highly recommended.