Way Down South (1939)

Starring:

• Clarence Muse
• Bobby Breen 
• Alan Mowbray 
• Matthew 'Stymie' Beard 
• Ralph Morgan 
• Marguerite Whitten 
• Steffi Duna 
• Sally Blane 
• Willie Best 
• Lillian Randolph

Storyline
In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father's estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up any of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.

Hi De Ho (1947)

Starring:

• Cab Calloway
• Ida James
• Jeni Le Gon
• William Campbell 
• James Dunmore 
• Edgar Martin 
• Dusty Fletcher

Storyline
Bandleader Cab Calloway is tiring of his sexy girlfriend Minnie, who in turn is jealous of Cab's manager Nettie. When Nettie gets Cab a job at the Brass Hat Club, Minnie retaliates for his imagined infidelity by setting gangster Boss Mason, owner of a rival club, against him. Will she regret her action before it's too late? (This plot resolves halfway through the film; the rest is a series of 'soundies' featuring the Calloway band's inimitable jive). All-black cast.