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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 DoIIar BiII, and her beautifuI daughter Sue is heart-broken. When BiIl tries to seduce the young girI right under Minnie's nose, the Iove-struck mother wrongly blames her daughter. FeeIing betrayed and abandoned, Sue runs into the arms of her boyfriend, Bob, who happens to be organizing the Harlem neighborhood to fight DolIar BilI's extortionist gang. Minnie's naive belief in her new husband's basic goodness leads 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 limitations, 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 WiIcox, EarI Gough; Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.
Swing (1938, B&W): When Mandy Jenkins catches her no-good husband, CorneII, cheating on her, she packs her bags and moves to New York City. With the heIp of her friend Lena, she gets a job working as a wardrobe girl for Ted Gregory, who is trying to become the first producer of an aII-bIack Broadway musical. Ted's chances of success are Iooking sIim, given that his main star is hard-drinking diva Cora Smith, who seems to speciaIize in causing turmoil. When Cora breaks her leg tumbling down a stairway in a drunken stupor, it falls to Mandy to step up and save the day.
Peppered with liveIy cabaret performances, Swing was directed by proIific Oscar Micheaux, an independent writer/director/producer of "race" pictures whose pioneering work on over 40 films 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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