Ten Minutes To Live (1932)

Starring:

• Lawrence Chenault
• A.B. DeComathiere 
• Laura Bowman
• Carl Mahon
• Lorenzo Tucker 
• Willor Lee Guilford 
• Tressie Mitchell 

Storyline
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). 

Reet, Petite and Gone (1947)

Starring:

• Louis Jordan
• June Richmond 
• Milton Woods 
• Bea Griffith 
• David Bethea 
• Lorenzo Tucker 
• Vanita Smythe 
• Mable Lee 
• Dots Johnson

Storyline
Old-time musical star Schyler Jarvis, now wealthy, is dying; his last act is a visionary plan for the future happiness of his son, swing bandleader Louis Jarvis, and Honey Carter, daughter of his long-lost love. But crooked lawyer Talbot has a nefarious scheme to get his hands on the Jarvis money...and it doesn't include any happiness for Louis and Honey. Plenty of swing from Louis Jordan's Tympany Five.