Storyline This film is the work of self-taught filmmakers James and Eloyce Gist, African-American evangelists who employed cinema as a tool for their traveling ministry. Their surreal visual allegories were screened in churches and meeting halls, accompanied by sermon and the passing of a collection plate. Rather than having a linear story, the film is instead a catalog of iniquity, a car-by-car dramatization of the sins of the Jazz Age (including gambling, dancing, alcohol, and the mistreatment of animals), presided over by a honored devil, culminating in a colossal derailment (a model train tossed into a bonfire).
Storyline Produced in Detroit, Michigan by little known African-American filmmaker Richard Maurice, Eleven P.M. is a surreal melodrama in which a poor violinist named Sundaisy (Maurice) tries to protect an orphan girl (Wand Maurice) from a small-time hoodlum. The story, which may or may not be a dream concocted by a struggling newspaperman, has one of the most bizarre endings in film history, when the spirit of the deceased Sundaisy possess the body of a dog in order to take vengeance upon the crook.
Storyline A young man named Jean (Stanley Morrell) in post-World War I Chicago falls in love with a
beautiful girl named Edith (Eunice Brooks). He proposes to her, but realizes that she's
involved in the rackets and won't leave them, so he goes back home to
South Dakota, where he becomes a successful rancher. There he falls for a
white girl, but guilt drives him back to Chicago, where he runs into
Edith again, and they agree to marry. When Edith is later found
murdered, Jean is blamed for the crime.
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