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Showing posts with label 1934. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1934. Show all posts

Saturday, January 20, 2018

Harlem After Midnight (1934) [Lost Film]




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The story is built around Negro gangsters who kidnap a wealthy Jew and just about get away with it, until Micheaux, in the role of a clever sleuth, breaks up the racket.

**This film is considered lost until notified otherwise**

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Black Moon (1934)

























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A young girl who lives on a tropical island loses her parents to a voodoo sacrifice, but although she manages to escape the island, a curse is put on her. Years later, as an adult, she feels a strong compulsion to return to the island to confront her past. Her husband, her daughter and her nanny go with her, but once back on the island, the woman finds herself elevated by the locals to the stature of a voodoo goddess, and she begins her inevitable descent into madness, with disastrous results for her family. 

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Chloe, Love Is Calling You (1934)



















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In the swamps of Florida, Mandy, an old voodoo woman, returns to her home after many years to avenge the death of her husband. Mandy’s daughter, Chloe, has doubts that she’s really black and she rejects the proposal of Jim who is traveling with them. Meanwhile, Wade, the foreman of the Colonel’s turpentine plantation, fires Moses who¹s been stealing the product. A series of strange events are set in motion as Chloe is torn between Jim, Wade, and Moses, as the Colonel attempts to get to the bottom of the disappearance of his daughter, Betty Ann, fifteen years earlier, and as Mandy attempts to extract her revenge with a voodoo ceremony.

Saturday, May 27, 2017

Drums o' Voodoo [a.k.a. She Devil, Louisiana] (1934)

















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Drums o' Voodoo was re-released in 1940 under the title She Devil. Screenplay based on stage play, Louisiana, buy Augustus Smith.

The conflict among a group of Louisiana Negroes between the Christian religion, voodooism and the entirely irreligious. The latter element is personified in Morris McKinney, owner of a jook, presumably a bawdy house, who is determined that he will have the niece of the local preacher, J. Augustus Smith, or expose the preacher's past. The grandson of the woman, who is high preregister of the voodoo worshipers, wants to marry the niece. Just as McKinney is disclosing to the preacher's congregation that Smith murdered a man, he is stricken blind. This is attributed to the voodoo woman's spell. Windup finds everybody happy and the forces of voodooism riding high.