A black Harvard graduate confronts racism.A black Harvard graduate confronts racism.A black Harvard graduate confronts racism.
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- TriviaFilmed in late 1937.
- GoofsWhen Peter and Cissy are walking down the street talking about the Peter's being swindled, the shadow of a boom mike is to the left of her throughout the shot.
- Quotes
Peter's Mother: I 'clare fo gawd. Dis Darktown is a white man's pocket. Every time he misplaces something he feels in it to see if it ain't there... if a white man eat a flap jack and hit didn't give him belly-ache, he'd get out a search warrant to see if some Negro didn't steal it on the way down his throat.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Movies of Color: Black Southern Cinema (2002)
- SoundtracksAll God's Children Got Rhythm
Music by Walter Jurmann
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The 55 Year Old Oscar Micheaux
This adaptation of Thomas Edmund Stribling's novel was akin to Hitchcock's adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's novel, 'Jamaica Inn'. I enjoyed reading Stribling's novel simply because it was written from a black perspective.
I don't think I should be too harsh on Micheaux because his contemporaries, Hitchcock and DeMille, weren't at their best either at this stage.
I don't think I should be too harsh on Micheaux because his contemporaries, Hitchcock and DeMille, weren't at their best either at this stage.
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- Single-Black-Male
- Oct 30, 2003
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- Runtime1 hour 14 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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