Ed Smalls is doing a tremendous business at Smalls Paradise Cafe in Harlem because Billy Bond is making a big hit with his singing. But when Smalls tell Bond that there will be a lot of celebrities in for the show, Bond shows his boss the paper - it's from Uncle Sam. Smalls is frantic, as he knows of no one who can replace Bond, so he starts accepting auditions to replace Bond. Frankie, a singer with a bobbysoxer crowd but little known, is turned away at the audition. Little Miss Brown, a Frankie fan, persuades Bond to listen to Frankie.
**This film is located at the Library of Congress and Smithsonian, but never released and not archived online for viewing. We are considering this film missing until available to the public.**
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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!
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It’s been three months since Simon’s
father passed away and to date his house has been left abandoned. Simon
and Friday arrive one day to find their friend, Ntombi, waiting for
them. The trio enter the house to do an inspection, and Friday soon
becomes convinced the place is haunted, refusing to be left alone at any
time. Simon, not sharing Friday’s supernatural suspicions, finds his
friend’s nervousness amusing. That night, however, Friday becomes even
more convinced the house is haunted when he believes he sees a ghost in
the middle of the night.
The plot thickens when Raufus, a local thug wanting Ntombi’s hand in
marriage, sets his sights on owning Simon’s father’s farm, claiming he
is owed money by the deceased father. But Simon has no intention of
letting his father’s land go.
Storyline An unmarried pregnant Southern girl, Marlene, (Patty Duke) has run away from home and has taken refuge at an abandon house on the Texas Coast. While dwelling, a black lawyer, Charles (Al Freeman Jr.), who has killed a white man in self-defense and is on the run, has decided to hide in the same abandoned house. Brought together by fate, the two dwellers realize their differences are not so different and an unlikely friends occurs. However, they can not run from their troubled past and the two have to face their truths. Based on the novel by David Westheimer.