Lost Boundaries

Lost Boundaries
Directed by	Alfred L. Werker
Written by	Charles Palmer (adaptation) Eugene Ling Virginia Shaler (screenplay) Ormonde de Kay Maxime Furlaud (additional dialogue)
Based on	Document of a New Hampshire Family 1947 article by William L. White
Produced by	Louis De Rochemont
Starring	Beatrice Pearson Mel Ferrer Susan Douglas Rubeš
Cinematography	William Miller
Edited by	Angelo Ross Dave Kummins
Music by	Jack Shaindlin Louis Applebaum
Production companies	Louis de Rochemont Associates RD-DR Productions
Distributed by	Film Classics
Release date	June 30, 1949 (1949-06-30)[1]
Running time	99 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$600,000[2]
Box office	$2 million[3]

Lost Boundaries is a 1949 American film starring Beatrice Pearson, Mel Ferrer (in his first leading role), and Susan Douglas Rubeš. Directed by Alfred L. Werker, it is based on William Lindsay White's story of the same title, a nonfiction account of Dr. Albert C. Johnston and his family, who passed for white while living in New England in the 1930s and 1940s. The film won the 1949 Cannes Film Festival award for Best Screenplay.^[4] The use of white actors in the film's leading black roles proved controversial.^[5] The film was banned in Atlanta, Georgia, and Memphis, Tennessee.