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Starring & Directed by Spencer Williams
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Starring Spencer Williams, Mantan Moreland & Louis Jordan
Directed by Spencer Williams & William Forest Crouch
Two shabby but resourceful men come into town with big business ideas / A young singer is blamed for the deaths of a crooked lawyer.
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- Released June 27, 2006
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Juke Joint (1947, B&W): Two small-time con men, Bad News Johnson and Cornbread Jones, are down to their last quarter when they breeze into town. Sweet-talking Johnson finds them a room at the home of Mama Lou Holiday by posing as a Hollywood big shot and promising to give acting lessons to Mama's beautiful daughter, Honey Dew. The fiery matriarch is determined to keep her young girl from... Continue »
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Directed by Spencer Williams
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Starring Francine Everett, Don Wilson, Billy Daniels & Sheila Guyse
Directed by Spencer Williams & Arthur Leonard
A sexy, dancer from Harlem enlivens a sleepy Caribbean island resort / A beautiful but broken-hearted woman is the inspiration behind a huge hit. All black cast classic with a special appearance by Freddie Bartholomew.
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- Released July 31, 2007
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Dirty Gertie From Harlem U.S.A. (1946, B&W): Dancer Gertie La Rue is the toast of Harlem, but she's been two- timing her beau, Al, the man who put her in the spotlight. Fearing Al's retribution, Gertie drags her entire show troupe out to the remote island of Rinidad, where she hopes to lay low for a while. She's also managed to make her self imposed exile a lucrative one, setting up a residency... Continue »
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Starring Spencer Williams & Edna May Harris
Directed by Spencer Williams & Oscar Micheaux
All Black Cast Double Feature! A dead woman is sent back to earth by Satan only to follow the road to degradation / A deceitful young woman frames an innocent man of rape.
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- Released October 24, 2006
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The Blood Of Jesus (1941, B&W): Pious, young Martha Jackson is accidentally shot by her sinful husband, Razz Jackson, on the very same day she was baptized in a solemn riverside service. Instead of being sent straight to heaven, Martha is escorted by an angel to The Crossroads, where a sign points in opposite directions - Hell and Zion. Just as she turns toward salvation, Satan sends suave... Continue »
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Starring Spencer Williams & Edna Mae Harris
Directed by Spencer Williams & Arthur Dreifuss
A blackmailer accidentally murders his own mother in this classic all black cast morality tale / A Harlem nightclub impresario is confronted by a Bible thumping minister and gangsters who want to take over his business.
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- Released November 21, 2006
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Go Down Death (B&W, 1944): Bar owner Big Jim Bottoms (Spencer Williams) has a running feud with a popular local preacher, whose sermons are rallying the townsfolk against him. With the help of three trampy bar-girls and a sneaky photographer, Big Jim comes into possession of some very compromising pictures of the young minister. His attempt to smear the man is thwarted when Jim's adoptive mother,... Continue »
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Directed by Spencer Williams
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Starring Dizzy Gillespie, Helen Humes, James Moody & Milt Jackson
Directed by Leonard Anderson, Spencer Williams & Bud Pollard
A swinging variety show with Dizzy Gillespie and his all stars. / A fundraising concert is planned to save a small southern college.
Musicals / The Arts DVD
- Released January 8, 2008
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Jivin' In Be-Bop (1946, B&W): Dizzy Gillespie takes center stage and hosts an old time variety show from the "Chitlin Circuit" captured in its entirety. Jivin' in Be Bop features one smash show-stopping tune after another performed by Dizzy and His Orchestra intermingled with hilarious vaudeville routines.Starring Dizzy Gillispie and His Orchestra, Helen Humes, Ray Sneed Sanji, Freddie Carter and... Continue »
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Starring & Directed by Spencer Williams
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Starring Spencer Williams & Jacqueline Lewis
Directed by Spencer Williams & Oscar Micheaux
A girl from the country arrives in the big city where she is set upon by an adulterous pimp / An evil "devil-daughter" ruins the lives of everyone around her.
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- Released November 21, 2006
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Girl in Room 20 (B&W, 1942): Backwater choir singer, Daisy Mae Walker, leaves her small Texas town of Perryville and ventures into the big city to pursue her dreams of fame. She checks into Old Crown's flophouse where she takes up with a gang of musicians who offer her a chance to perform. An innocent girl with a lilting voice, Daisy is no match for the hardened survivors she meets on the... Continue »
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Starring Spencer Williams
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Starring Spencer Williams, Mantan Moreland, Cab Calloway & Lena Horne
30 classic all-Black cast musicals, dramas and comedies, on 15 DVDs. An AMAZING value!
Drama DVD
- Coming September 30, 2008
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Includes 30 films on 15 DVDs: Burlesque in Harlem (1949), Broken Strings (1940), Big Timers (1945), Beware (1946), Blood Of Jesus (1941), Duke Is Tops (1938), Double Deal (1939), Dirty Gertie From Harlem U.S.A. (1946), Dark Manhattan (1937), God's Step Children (1938), Go Down Death! (1944), Girl in Room 20 (1942), Gang War (1940), Hi De Ho (1947), <
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Starring Spencer Williams
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Starring Mario Van Peebles, Paul Robeson & Spencer Williams
Directed by Walid Khaldi
Documentary DVD
- Released January 16, 2007
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