The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show

2020

Action / Documentary / History

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 75% · 8 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 75%
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 208 208

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Plot summary

For one week in February 1968, Johnny Carson gave up his chair to Harry Belafonte, the first time an African-American had hosted a late night TV show for a whole week.

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Reviewed by dave d 7 / 10

Over 50 years ago Tonight Show host Johnny

Over 50 years ago Tonight Show host Johnny Carson handed over hosting duties to Harry Belafonte for one week. It was a historic event that I never knew about until watching this documentary feature. It's fascinating. Listening to Belafonte talk about the historic series of shows all this time later is surreal. September 1968 was a crazy period in America and it's all too relevant to the times of today. Very little of this footage exists, but what does is just stunning. It's also crazy to think that the tapes were erased for almost all shows. Makes you wonder what TV we have missed. Belafonte was the first person of color (at the time referred to as Afro-American) to host a late night show and was the only until Arsenio Hall decades later. It's worth watching to get the context of it all. Final Score: 7.3/10
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Reviewed by DavoZed 4 / 10

80 % Filler

It's a documentary about the week that Belafonte hosted The Tonight Show but they only have a tape of two of the five nights.

80 - 90 % of the film is filler. Celebrity talking heads talking about a time and about issues of which they have no clue. Most of them not even born when the events took place.

Repetitious, empty, annoying.

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