TY - ADVS AU - Berman,Pandro S. AU - Green,Guy AU - Poitier,Sidney AU - Winters,Shelley AU - Hartman,Elizabeth AU - Kata,Elizabeth ED - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. ED - Warner Home Video (Firm) TI - A patch of blue SN - 1419845128 (set) AV - PN1997 .P38 2009 U1 - 791.43/72 22 PY - 2009///] CY - Burbank, CA PB - Distributed by Warner Home Video KW - Blind women KW - California KW - Los Angeles KW - Drama KW - African American men KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Ciegos KW - Los Ángeles KW - Teatro KW - bidex KW - Afronorteamericanos KW - fast KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - lcgft KW - Feature films N1 - Title from container; Based on "Be ready with bells and drums" by Elizabeth Kata; Originally released as a motion picture in 1965; Special features: Commentary by director Guy Green; stills gallery; "Sidney Poitier: the legacy" essay; awards notes; Music, Jerry Goldsmith; Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman; Not rated N2 - Selena D'Arcy is accidentally blinded by her prostitute mother, Rose-Ann, at the age of five. For the next 13 years she is confined in the tiny Los Angeles apartment that they share with her grandfather. One afternoon at the local park, Selena meets Gordon Ralfe, an office worker whose kind treatment of her results in her falling in love with him, unaware that he is black. They continue to meet in the park every afternoon and he teaches her how to get along in the city. But when Rose-Ann learns of their relationship, she forbids Selena from having anything more to do with him. Selena continues to meet Gordon despite Rose-Ann's fury ER -