Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled (1918)

Directed by:

• R.W. Phillips

Storyline
A professor of Egyptology seeks a mummy for experimentation. A young man devises a scheme to give the professor his desire in hopes of winning the hand in marriage of the teacher's daughter. 

Verdict: Not Guilty (1933)

Written and Directed by:

• Eloyce Gist
• James Gist

Storyline
Part religious allegory and part church pageant, it presents the heavenly trial of a woman who has died giving childbirth out of wedlock. The jailer wears a mask death’s head mask and a nun’s habit with a skull and crossbones on the front and God sits on an altar, flanked by angels, while the devil attempts to convict the woman for her sins. 

A Daughter of the Congo (1930) [Lost Film]

Starring:

• Kathleen Noisette
• Lorenzo Tucker 
• Salem Tutt Whitney 
• Willor Lee Guilford 
• Roland C. Irving 
• Joe Byrd 
• Alice B. Russell

Storyline
The central character is Lupelta, a beautiful mulatto girl who has been stolen as a baby and brought up among the savages of the jungle. The story opens with Lupelta on her way to the village to marry the tribal chief. She has paused to bathe in a brook when she is surrounded, captured ad made a prisoner of slave hunters. In the meantime, Captain Paul Dale, colored U.S. Army, and his first lieutenant have been sent by their government to operate a constabulary, and are on a reconnaissance. They encounter the slave hunters and promptly take their prisoners and rescues Lupelta. She is taken to a mission school where she succumbs to learning and soon becomes a popular maid in spite of her frequent inclination to revert to the wild life of the jungle.  

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

The Millionaire (1927) [Lost Film]

Starring:

• Grace Smith
• Laurence Criner 
• Lionel Monagas 
• Cleo Desmond 
• William Edmonson 
• Vera Bracker 
• S.T. Jacks 
• E.G. Tatum 

Storyline
"The Millionaire" deals with the adventures of Pelham Gustry, a Negro Soldier of Fortune; a mans who, as a youth, possessed great initiative and a definite objective, hies himself far from the haunts of his race—thousands of miles away to South America. There, upon the wild, billowy plains of The Argentine, he becomes a sort of "Wild Bull Of The Pampas." Fifteen years fly by—and, having amassed a huge fortune, he returns to America, his heart anxious and hungry for that most infinite of all things—women! In New York, he meets Celia Wellington, the siren—but unworthy creature; the concubine of the "Lizard," most notorious underworld character in all New York, who, in league with Brock, king of the underworld, seek to inveigle him into marriage with the vampire. What follows makes up the story on chock full of action, thrills, romance and intrigue until it will keep you grasping the seat and catching your breath in a never ending stem of excitement and interest. 

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

The Lure of a Woman (1921) [Lost Film]

Starring:

• A. Porter Davis
• Regina Cohee 
• Charles Allen 
• John Cobb 
• Lenore Jones 
• Alonzo Nixon

Storyline
According to an information in the George P. Johnson Collection at the UCLA Special Collections Library, this was the first release of The Afro-American Film Exhibitors Co. of Kansas City, Missouri. An ad called the film "The first Negro production ever made in Kansas City" and stated, "All the cast in this production are Kansas City Negroes. All the scenes were taken about the city." Charles H. Allen, the male lead, was the general manager and treasurer of the company. They planned a series of eight films that would be released in Central and South America, as well as in the U.S., and boasted of a distribution policy "that will enable it to overcome some of the difficulties usual to colored pictures." Their second release was to be called The Human Devil . No additional information concerning the company has been located.  -American Film Institute

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

A Son of Satan (1924) [Lost Film]

The Pittsburgh Courier

Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania

Sat, Apr 07, 1923 · Page 12

Starring:

• Andrew Bishop
• Lawrence Chenault 
• Shingzie Howard 
• Edna Morton 
• E.G. Tatum 
• Walter Robertson 
• Dink Stewart 
• Ida Anderson 
• Monte Hawley 

Storyline
Also known as "The Ghost of Tolston's Manor." The story revolves around the experiences of a man going to a haunted house and staying all night because of a bet.

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

The Devil's Disciple (1925) [Lost Film]

Starring:

• Evelyn Preer
• Lawrence Chenault 
• Edward Thompson
• Percy Verwayan
  

Storyline
An Oscar Micheaux film. Aileen Kennibrew, a charming and beautiful girl calls on one Richard Ellis, a motion picture producer, who is impressed by her modesty, refined personality and striking carriage and is persuaded to "try" her out in the movies. She makes good, and altho' elevated after a few pictures to stardom, becomes obsessed with an overwhelming desire to go on the stage. Finally securing a part with a dramatic stock company, she fall in love with a character man, who, unknown to her, is of degenerate character. Giving him all her love, however, she sets out to reform him with the usual result—but that's the story!

A motion picture that every young girl ought to see, as it, among other things, points out with great force and conviction, the error o vain love and shows how easily any attractive girl may be ruined by failure to exercises normal restraint. 

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

The Dungeon (1922) [Lost Film]

Starring:

• William Fountaine
• Shingzie Howard 
• J. Kenneth Goodman 
• William Crowell 
• Earle Browne Cook 
• Blanche Thompson

Storyline
An Oscar Micheaux film. Myrtle Downing, a beautiful young lady, is engaged to Stephen Cameron, a young lawyer. One morning she awakens to find out that she is married to "Gyp" Lassiter, a notorious crook and Cameron's worst enemy. She later discovers that "Gyp" is a bigamist, a man with many wives, all of whom he murdered when they tried to expose him. "Gyp," having political aspirations, plots a permit residential segregation in exchange for a Congressional seat. Myrtle overhears the plot and tried to escape and warn her people, but "Gyp" catches and locks her in a room. However, she escapes and exposes her husband. "Gyp," enraged at his wife's actions, sets out to murder her. He catches her and locks her in the dungeon. Cameron leans of her danger and proceeds to rescue her. 

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

 

La sirène des tropiques [a.k.a. Siren of the Tropics] (1927)

Starring:

• Josephine Baker 
• Pierre Batcheff 
• Régina Dalthy

Storyline
Marquis Sévéro, a rich, lazy Parisian, wants to divorce his wife so that he can marry his own goddaughter Denise. But Denise herself loves André Berval, an engineer employed by the marquis. Filled with jealousy, the marquis sends André to the Antilles, to prospect some land he has just acquired. He promises André that he can marry Denise if he is successful in the tropics, but he then writes to Alvarez, his manager at the site, asking him to prevent André from ever returning to France. The brutal Alvarez forms an instant hatred for André when the engineer breaks up Alvarez's attempt to rape Papitou, a beautiful native girl. Papitou becomes devoted to André, and protects him against Alvarez's schemes. But she faces a crisis herself when she learns that André plans to marry Denise.