Take Me Back, Baby (1941, Soundie)

Starring:

• Count Basie and His Orchestra
• Jimmy Rushing
• Winnie Johnson

Storyline
Count Basie and His Orchestra perform "Take Me Back, Baby" with vocals by Jimmy Rushing. Winnie Johnson is the lady playing Jimmy's girl. 

Ain't Misbehaven' (1941, Soundie)

Starring:

• Fats Waller
• Myra Johnson 
• Hilda Brown 
• Betti Mays 
• Olive Prince

Storyline
Musical short featuring Fats Waller.

One Round Jones (1941) [Lost Film]

Starring:

• Eddie Green 
• Helen Lewis
• Lorenzo Tucker

Storyline
The story of a night club owner who undertakes to build his business by offering $50 to any one who can go one-round with his “mystery fighter.” Of course, Eddie is the goat. He climbs into the ring shaking like a dish of Jell-O but when he climbs out he’s got the money and the fighter’s girl, and, for a little man, that’s doing all right!

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

 

Up Jumped The Devil (1941) [Lost Film]

Starring:

• Mantan Moreland 
• Maceo Bruce Sheffield
• Shelton Brooks

Storyline
A very funny and silly movie with Mantan Moreland and Shelton Brooks. They play two parolees out looking for a job. They apply and get a job on a wealthy estate as a butler and a maid. Of course, Mantan plays a big chested maid and Sheldon the butler. The plot basically involves a shady swamie trying to steal the lady of the estate's jewelry and succeeding. Enter Mantan and Shaldon to trick swamie into getting the jewelry back and having him arrested.  

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

Mr. Washington Goes To Town (1941) [Lost Film]

Starring:

• F.E. Miller
• Mantan Moreland
• Maceo Bruce Sheffield

Storyline
While reading the newspaper in his jail cell during his stint as a "guest of the county", Wallingford reads a story that his cellmate, Schenectady, has inherited a hotel from an uncle who has recently died. Upon hearing the news, Schenectady falls asleep and dreams of what kind of life he'll lead now that he owns a hotel. It turns out he has a surprise in store.  

* This film is presumed lost until further notice. Any information of the films existence would be greatly appreciated. *

The Blood of Jesus (1941)

Starring: 

• Cathryn Caviness
• Spencer Williams
• Juanita Riley
• Eddie DeBase 
• Rogenia Goldthwaite 
• James B. Jones 
• Reather Hardeman

Storyline
In the rural south of the United States, a godly young woman is accidentally wounded by her unchurched husband. She succumbs to the injuries, whereupon a good angel bids her to journey with him to the Crossroads of Life. Before she can travel far, the devil lures her with the temptations of juke joints and the city. Can she regain the straight and narrow before it's too late? And what is to become of those she left behind?