Adapted by Anthony Harvey from the controversial one-act play by Amiri Baraka, and nominated for the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion, the British independent feature Dutchman remains as provocative today as it was in 1966. In an empty New York City subway car, a sexually audacious white woman named Lula (Shirley Knight) taunts Clay (Al Freeman Jr.), a mild-mannered Black man, with mocking flirtations and increasingly offensive race-baiting. When Lula pushes him to his breaking point, Clay’s furious response appears to provide cathartic liberation—unless it portends a far more tragic fate. Baraka’s script suffuses Dutchman with combative innuendo and allegorical dream logic, amplified by the tense, cinema-verité style of Harvey, a longtime editor who shot his directorial debut with fearless command, expertly excavating America’s deepest racial taboos.