Overview
A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had.
Cast
- Bette Davis as Estelle Malone
- Ernest Harden Jr. as B.T. Williamson
- Eileen Heckart as Three Bag Lady
- Virginia Capers as Gorilla Sydney
- Anne Ramsey as Heavy Charm
- Lurene Tuttle as Mrs. McIntyre
- Tony Burton as Black Fighter
- Peg Shirley as Judge Alice Quentin
- Ernie Hudson as Counsellor
- Dan Mason as Father Gannon