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Miles of Smiles Years of Struggle

Jack Santino
Paul Wagner
1982 United States 59 minutes English

A film about the black personnel on the famous Pullman trains, about those men who were for smiling, who made the beds, carried luggage and cheered up the children. But their « miles of smiles » concealed a twenty-year fight to win the first rights for American blacks.

Production :
Paul Wagner Productions
Distribution :
Paul Wagner Productions; California Newsreel
Editing :
Paul Wagner
Sound :
Jack Krieger
Photography :
John Hiller

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