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Full film. Hallelujah is a 1929 American pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical directed by King Vidor, and starring Daniel L. Haynes and Nina Mae McKinney.. Filmed in Tennessee and Arkansas and chronicling the troubled quest of a sharecropper, Zeke Johnson (Haynes), and his relationship with the seductive Chick (McKinney), Hallelujah was one of the first films with an all-African American cast ...
The Scar of Shame (1929) by Frank Peregini. The Scar of Shame is a silent film shot in the winter of 1927 and released in April 1929. It is a silent melodrama film featuring black actors and was written for a predominantly black audience. [1] It premiered from April 13–17, 1929 in the M&S Douglas Theatre in New York City.
The days of the silent film are numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound is on.. February 1 – The Broadway Melody is released by MGM and becomes the first major musical film of the sound era, sparking a host of imitators as well as a series of Broadway Melody films that will run until 1940.
1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1929th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 929th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1920s decade.
The Wages of Sin is a lost 1929 American drama film directed, written, and produced by Oscar Micheaux. It was a race movie, featuring an all-black cast, headed by William A. Clayton, Jr. and Bessie Givens. The film was made in Pre-Code Hollywood. The film is presumed lost, as there is no known surviving footage of it.
[1] The most important of these filmmakers was groundbreaking auteur Oscar Micheaux, whose films Within Our Gates (1920), with "its head-on confrontation of racism and lynching,"The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920), about black homesteaders struggling for survival against the Ku Klux Klan on the Midwestern plains," and Body and Soul (1925 ...
Black and Tan (film) The Black Book (serial) The Black Domino (film) The Black Forest Girl (1929 film) Black Hills (1929 film) Black Magic (1929 film) The Black Watch (film) Black Waters; Blackmail (1929 film) Blaze o' Glory; The Blue Express; Blue Skies (1929 film) Blue Songs (film) Bobby, the Petrol Boy; The Body Punch; The Bondman (1929 film ...
Title Director Cast Genre Studio Acquitted: Frank R. Strayer: Lloyd Hughes, Margaret Livingston: Criminal melodrama: Columbia [1] [2]: After the Fog: Leander De Cordova: Mary Philbin, Edmund Burns, Carmelita Geraghty