Murder in Harlem (1935) OSCAR MICHEAUX
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Stars: Clarence Brooks, Dorothy Van Engle, Andrew Bishop
Directors: Oscar Micheaux , Clarence Williams
A black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After he reports it, he finds himself accused of the murder.
Oscar M is a native of Roanoke Virginia. His studio is on my bicycle route the building has a historical marker and is being used as a culinary school
Whooooa! Thanks for this upload. A movie (during that time) with Black ppl NOT in a subservient illiterate role. I love it!
Yes, for the most part, the black characters in this movie come off pretty well, except for Lem, who is sadly a stereotypical black man-child.
Yay!!! Something I haven't seen!! Thank u!
Aan interesting movie, with a few stereotypes, but a lot of dignified black people too. All in all, a more dignified portrayal of black people than in many modern hip hop videos.
tom jackson Difference today there is no segregation and no superiority complex. In other words we make whatever da fuqqk we want to make today! Peace....and I'm out like a MF!
Wow! The third film i've viewed🎬 today,from morning ⏲ straight into the afternoon. 🕰 This is truly a great murder mystery with lots of nice twists & turns all throughout. I'd never even supposed that it would end up being who the true murderer really was! This is a good watch & a great mystery film that will leave one "very surprised" in the end👌Sitting & enjoying a very relaxed day with awesome classics on 🍕PizzaFlx🍕! Much gratitude once again,actually this is my third today & i'm on to the next 🍕🥛📽 😊
A very interesting perspective on the Leo Frank case. Thank you.
what brilliant acting and directing… wondering why that movie never became a blockbuster …
The club scene, such great music. Who is that trumpet player? Thanks for the upload.
I’m not sure I understood this story but the music & dancing was terrific!
I can't help but say, the men look nothing at all like their caricaturing done in animated movies by whites. They're rather handsome as are the women quite gorgeous. Of course, I wasn't alive during those times. LOL
Animation isn't meant to look realistic, and actors are generally chosen for their looks. If you didn't know better, today's movies and TV would make you think that everyone in 2023 was beautiful, had great abs, and was under age 30.
Very well made film for low budget. Great acting. Dorothy Van Engel recognizes the author. She is highly intelligent plus beautiful. She should have been given bigger roles by the big studios, irregardless of being a beautiful black actress. She had talent with sophisticated class. Thx for the movie !
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Pretty much a carbon copy of the Leo Frank case from 1913 in Marietta, GA. Details right down to hiding the body in the cellar of the pencil factory, with two fake notes left on the body. The Broadway musical "Parade" was based on this account.
Your films keep jamming half-way through
I enjoyed the film and thanks for the show~!!
yikes, what a jumpy print. I have to fill in the blanks, especially in the court scene. Otherwise, interesting film on many levels.
Oscar Micheaux was a Damn good Director and Producer of Films. Ever so sad a FACT that he had to 'beg-borrow-and cajole' to raise the financing for his Products. Yes, the 'White Hollywood Studios' were fully aware of his presence. Some, even realized that with THEIR financing---he could be made to be a Nationally money-making product. BUT, ONLY on their terms of 'artistic control' which would mean: the usually profiled 'slack-jawed, slow moving, 'Gone With the Wind' field hand portrayals for many of the storylines characters. As the Hollywood Execs were NOT about to antagonize their Southern Market Theater Operators or audience with the film presence of Intelligent, average dressed, well spoken Black Men or Woman. In, My Opinion---he could have been a great asset to the Film Industry.
Wow, what an insightful take. I’m currently taking a class where this film is a topic of discussion, and I will be sure to relay your thoughts on the matter.
Good movie💕
I noticed that there are a lot of Afro Americans in these early movies
I think it's fantastic and show's a lot of foresight from the producers of
These black and white movies
No pun intended
This movie is what was known as a "race" movie, aimed at black audiences and featuring a mostly black cast. Most of America was segregated in the 1930s, and most black people lived in all-black ghettos, so distributors could play movies like this in theaters that would have almost exclusively black patrons.
what are the pictures shown on the thumbs? i watched the whole film and didn't see these images!
They're at 36:42 . . . where George (Myrtle's boyfriend) picks up a magazine and looks at these pictures.
Dorothy van Engle was beautiful. Will look for more films with her.
Indeed! Quite a few attractive women in this movie!
Micheaux made cheap mediocre films with generally third-rate actors who all happened to be African American. Although his themes were indeed revolutionary for the time his contribution to cinematic history is a footnote rather than a chapter. And yes, I've read his biography which itself is honest about the quality of his product and those he utilized to make it.
How delightfully condescending of you. This "footnote" in American Cinema and his "mediocre" films were the beginnings of what is now Black Independent Filmmaking. And a couple of those third-rate actors just happened to have been people like Bert Williams, Rex Ingram, and Paul Robeson. He also wrote, produced, and directed, and had full artistic control over what he produced. That"footnote" created the foundations and inspiration for directors like Spike Lee, Julie Dash, Ava DuVernay, Ryan Coogler, John Singleton, and countless others. So he's more like a big chapter in an even larger volume.
@@RealGRRRLz69 While I found this movie an interesting piece of film history and I'm glad that it was made and that it still exists, I have to admit that the acting was pretty bad. Then again, that kind of stilted, melodramatic delivery was standard for the time, a holdover from stage acting, and the acting here is no worse than I've seen in plenty of mainstream movies. Elevator was just offering an honest opinion. Should he have given the movie a free pass just because it was made by a black director and had a mostly black cast? Now that WOULD be condescending.
@@graemesmith6721 Not when one movie is used to represent an entire body of work. There were great and important Black Actors that were dismissed as third-rate.
And had he given the movie a free pass simply because everyone connected was Black, I would personally see it more as pandering.
@@RealGRRRLz69 He did say that they were GENERALLY third-rate actors. I'm sure they couldn't all be as bad as the cast of this movie. I can't comment on the rest of Micheaux's body of work, since this is the only example I've seen. I didn't even know he existed before I saw this. And this movie isn't bad, but it isn't great either. I've certainly seen far worse, and with far bigger budgets. But the significance of a movie isn't solely dependent on its quality. After all, the Wright brothers' first plane was a pretty shaky affair. But it was first.
This is what used to be called a "race" movie--a movie aimed at black audiences, featuring a predominantly black cast. Hollywood made hundreds of these up until the early 1950s. The movie itself isn't bad, clearly being based on the Leo Frank murder case, up to the point of having two notes found on the dead girl's body, and the notes even containing the same words the real ones did. For the most part, the black characters come off pretty well, being intelligent and well-spoken, a rarity for movies of this vintage. The exception is Lem, who is unfortunately played the way Hollywood typically portrayed black men in the 1930s and 40s--as a cowardly, simple-minded, subservient, alcoholic man-child. This was how most white people of the time viewed blacks--essentially as overgrown children, which is why they typically weren't permitted to hold jobs that required any kind intelligence or sense of responsibility. Hollywood--for the most part--helped to foster that stereotype, though it predated the movie industry. I'm not sure why the part with Epps needed to exist. The movie seemed to be all wrapped up, with the murderer caught, and then we get a second ending that feels almost tacked on. Still, an interesting historical document on race relations in America in the 1930s.
Daddy vanished.
Anyway, nice to see American Black movies. I love the white movies, of course.
Damn, feels really weird saying it that way.
It's delightful to see the wider spectrum of AMERICAN movies, isn't it?
That`s the worst movie I`ve ever seen.
I want to see more NRA signs and Bank closings..
Sorry, hardleý bearable, worse than pre school theatre
And the award for worst film edit ever but still entertaining goes to...
Kenneth Larrew well given that the movie had a Black cast, I have no doubt the the budget was a shoestring compared to white cast movies.