Storyline This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the
journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking
both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn
the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather.
Storyline 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.
Storyline Americans on vacation in the Caribbean take a tour of a nearby island at
night and watch a local voodoo ritual. Soon after, they find themselves
stranded on the island and under attack by unseen foes. One by one they
meet violent ends.