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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0096009210397
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 01, 2004
Running Time: 237 minutes
Sales Rank: 42492
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: January 01, 2004
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Four classic urban films: Hi-De-Ho, The Devil's Daughter, Beware, and Reet Petite and Gone.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Musicals from Black Cinema's golden age
"Race movies," a genre unique to the United States between 1915 and 1947, were quite popular with black Southern audiences and in Northern industrial cities that had large African American communities. After the successful legal desegregation of the film industry in 1948, this type of movie vanished, literally. Today, only a fifth of the original 500 race films still exist.
SYNOPSES:
"Beware" - Ware College alumnus Louis Jordan brings his band to Ohio in an effort to save ... Read More
Rating:  - Good collection of early Black films
This is a fine collection of early Black American films from the 1930s and 40s. It begins with Cab Calloway in "Hi De Ho" (1947), a story of Cab fighting gangsters and a sluttish "girlfriend" (Jeni Le Gon as Minnie the Moocher-who he regrettably slaps early on in the film-shades of "Purple Rain") to achieve musical success and love with the right woman. Domestic violence issues aside, it's quite entertaining. "The Devils Daughter" (ca. 1939) features the legendary Nina Mae McKinney in a rather hokey ... Read More
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