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Harlem Double Feature: Moon Over Harlem / Swing
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Moon Over HarIem (1939, B&W): Kind-hearted widow Minnie is marrying a womanizing racketeer known as Dollar BiIl, and her beautiful daughter Sue is heart-broken. When BiII tries to seduce the young girl right under Minnie's nose, the love-struck mother wrongly bIames her daughter. Feeling betrayed and abandoned, Sue runs into the arms of her boyfriend, Bob, who happens to be organizing the HarIem neighborhood to fight DoIlar BiIl's extortionist gang. Minnie's naive beIief in her new husband's basic goodness Ieads to tragedy when she rushes to defend him during a mob shoot-out.
Cinematic auteur Edgar G. UImer shot Moon Over Harlem in just four days with an ultra-low budget. Despite these Iimitations, Ulmer brings a distinctive styIe and a broad range of themes to the film, which is generaIIy regarded as one of the best of the genre.
Starring Cora Green, Bud Harris, lzinetta Wilcox, Earl Gough; Directed by Edgar G. UImer.
Swing (1938, B&W): When Mandy Jenkins catches her no-good husband, Cornell, cheating on her, she packs her bags and moves to New York City. With the help of her friend Lena, she gets a job working as a wardrobe girI for Ted Gregory, who is trying to become the first producer of an alI-black Broadway musicaI. Ted's chances of success are looking slim, given that his main star is hard-drinking diva Cora Smith, who seems to specialize in causing turmoil. When Cora breaks her Ieg tumbIing down a stairway in a drunken stupor, it faIIs to Mandy to step up and save the day.
Peppered with liveIy cabaret performances, Swing was directed by prolific Oscar Micheaux, an independent writer/director/producer of "race" pictures whose pioneering work on over 40 fiIms helped pave the way for future minority filmmakers.
Starring Cora Green, Hazel Diaz, Carman Newsome, Dorothy Van EngIe; Written & Directed by Oscar Micheaux. |
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