Spencer Williams

Razz accidentally shoots his wife Martha when his hunting rifle drops on the floor and discharges. The church congregation gathers at Martha’s...

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A Harlem nightclub entertainer arrives on the Caribbean island of "Rinidad" to perform as the headliner in a revue at the Paradise Hotel. She quickly...

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A newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about the young girl's father.

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A wandering cowboy and his sidekick try to resolve a murder.

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The history of the television version of "Amos and Andy" and the public outcry to cancel it.

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Bob Blake and his sidekick and four singing cowboys arrive at the Jackson ranch where Bob learns from Betty Jackson that her brother, Joe, is...

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A cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like him. He...

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The owner of a juke joint arranges to frame an innocent preacher with a scandalous photograph, but his scheme backfires when his own adoptive mother...

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Johnny Fraser leaves his mother in their small home town and sets out for the big city. He obtains a job with a large firm of architects. Steve...

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After losing their parents in a flood at a young age, two brothers grow up to become a police officer and a lawyer, working with a local newspaper...

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A filmed variety show featuring the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra with special guests.

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Virtually unseen for more than eighty years, Spencer Williams’s first film is a one-reel comedy short in which a rivalry between two men is...

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Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five...

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Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.

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A cowboy helps a pretty young woman find lost gold. Restored by the Academy Film Archive with additional funding from the National Endowment for the...

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A musical short.

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A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.

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Privacy Robson is a downtrodden husband who takes advice from his friend Florian Slappey. He eventually gets the upper hand after starting divorce...

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During World War II, a young African American is forced to continue his family’s tradition of military service when he is drafted into the...

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Musical film with an all-black cast.

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Spencer Williams' comedy feature.

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"Willie Dime," a big, bad taxi driver, is very jealous of "Miss Eva" and it burns him up to see any fool Jelly-bean "carrying on flirtatious...

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A musical short starring Sam McDaniel and Spencer Williams.

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An uncle discusses the life of Martin de Porres with his niece. de Porres was a late sixteenth-century Peruvian who was elevated to sainthood in 1962...

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