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Friday, August 2, 2013

The Black King (1932)
























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Fiery preacher Charcoal Johnson, though no model of sanctity, gains control of a Mississippi Baptist church through personal magnetism; he uses this springboard to organize a 'Back to Africa' movement among his fellow Afro-Americans, along the lines of evangelical religion. Weathering accusations of swindling, he emerges as the self-styled (future) Emperor of the United States of Africa. But his tin-plated pomp is threatened by greed, personalities, and practicalities...

Saturday, June 15, 2013

The Girl From Chicago (1932)






















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A remake of Micheaux's now-lost 1926 silent film The Spider's Web, The Girl From Chicago is another film that explores the cultural rift between the urban and the rural, set in both Harlem and Batesburg, Mississippi.

An undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss. He rescues the girl, and they leave Mississippi and head to Harlem, but their troubles follow them: they become involved in the murder of a local crime boss there.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Ten Minutes To Live (1932)
























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A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that she'll soon get another note, and that she will be killed ten minutes after that.

Resisting the stagebound atmosphere of The Exile, Micheaux found ways to shoot a talking picture on location, without cumbersome and expensive audio recording equipment. He did this by making one of his characters deaf and having much dialog spoken off-camera (so it could be dubbed later).