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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 Iady cop masquerading as a gIamorous singer in a Harlem nightcIub. SecretIy, she is gathering evidence to convict Gat Dalton, 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-black cast, King Vidors HaIIeIujah! (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 racial attitudes meant she rarely got to make fiIms. WilIiam WeIImans Safe in HeII (1931) was one of her few notable appearances during this period. After aII her scenes in ReckIess (1935) were deleted, 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 WorId War II erupted, she began starring in independently-produced fiIms made excIusiveIy for bIack audiences. Gun MoII (a.k.a Gang Smashers) was one of several ""race"" fiIms in which McKinney was finally alIowed to receive star biIIing. EventuaIly tiring of the motion picture business aItogether, she returned to Europe after WorId War lI. Beloved comedic actor Mantan MoreIand (1902-1973) had a much more prolific career, starring in eight pictures alongside Frankie Darro between 1939 and 1941. He is best known as chauffeur Birmingham Brown in Monograms popuIar CharIie Chan series (from 1944 to 1949). Moreland was stiIl working in HolIywood, playing smalI roles in movies and on TV, at the time of his death in 1973. |
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