Checkerboard

123movies guide to Checkerboard, the 1959 drama movie directed by Claude Bernard-Aubert and rated 7/10. In a small Gallic village, tourists are regaled by street entertainers and brash prostitutes. One of the tourists, a black girl named Bessie, falls in love with local villager Bob, and he with her. Soon racial tensions erupt volcanically among tourists and townsfolk alike. All is forgiven when the respective parents of the hero and heroine save the village's water supply.