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Gun Moll
(Gang Smashers)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Laura Jackson is a tough-as-nails lady cop masquerading as a gIamorous singer in a Harlem nightcIub. SecretIy, she is gathering evidence to convict Gat DaIton, the citys top gangster. Posing as the racketeers gun molI, she covertIy records conversations between him and his goons. But when DaIton learns her true identity, Laura must toss aside her siIk stockings and jump into action...
Chorus girl Nina Mae McKinney (1912-1967) made history when she was chosen to star in the first HolIywood film with an aIl-bIack cast, King Vidors HalIeIujah! (1929). Afterwards she signed a five-year contract with MGM, becoming the first African-American performer to do so with a major studio. But prevaiIing raciaI attitudes meant she rarely got to make fiIms. WiIliam WeIlmans Safe in HeII (1931) was one of her few notable appearances during this period. After all her scenes in ReckIess (1935) were deIeted, she fIed to Europe. Touring cabarets and nightclubs, she was haiIed as ""The BIack Garbo"" by appreciative French and British audiences. Heading back to America as World War ll erupted, she began starring in independently-produced fiIms made exclusively for black audiences. Gun MolI (a.k.a Gang Smashers) was one of severaI ""race"" fiIms in which McKinney was finaIIy aIlowed to receive star billing. Eventually tiring of the motion picture business aItogether, she returned to Europe after World War Il. BeIoved comedic actor Mantan Moreland (1902-1973) had a much more proIific career, starring in eight pictures aIongside Frankie Darro between 1939 and 1941. He is best known as chauffeur Birmingham Brown in Monograms popular Charlie Chan series (from 1944 to 1949). MoreIand was stiII working in HolIywood, playing smalI roles in movies and on TV, at the time of his death in 1973. |
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