Directed by Oscar Micheaux • 1932 • United States
Starring Lucille Lewis, Lawrence Chenault, Walter Fleming
A remake of director Oscar Micheaux’s (now lost) 1925 film THE HOUSE BEHIND THE CEDARS, VEILED ARISTOCRATS exists in incomplete form, but the missing footage does not impair one’s enjoyment of this drama—punctuated with song-and-dance numbers—of a woman wrestling with the decision of whether to marry a successful light-skinned man or an idealistic entrepreneur of darker complexion.
Directed by Oscar Micheaux • 1938 • United States
Starring Carman Newsome, Ethel Moses, Alec Lovejoy
An idealistic young man attempts to establish a school in a rural location, but encounters opposition from both the black and white communities. Director Oscar Micheaux himself was a former homes...
Directed by Richard C. Kahn • 1939 • United States
Starring Herb Jeffries, Lucius Brooks, Artie Young
A Hollywood-style western with a black cast, THE BRONZE BUCKAROO stars Herb Jeffries as singing cowboy Bob Blake, a smooth, brave, and honorable hero who is assisted by his comic sidekick Dusty,...
Directed by Spencer Williams • 1941 • United States
Starring Cathryn Caviness, Spencer Williams, Juanita Riley
The first feature by director/actor Spencer Williams (commonly remembered today as Andy on TV’s “Amos ’n’ Andy”), THE BLOOD OF JESUS is a rural religious parable in which a woman (Cathr...
