This is a film that will forever be famous for the fact that it is the oldest surviving film directed by an African American. It will forever be shown in retrospectives of African American cinema and as a counterpoint to D.W. Griffen?s The Birth of a Nation. It is probably dest...( read more)
Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin
Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated negro woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished negro youths.
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August 9, 2009
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January 7, 2009
While cleaning my DVR I came across this. OK, I knew it was there, but whatever. I laughed when Efren or whatever his name was got lynched, because I'm a noticeably bad person, but then I cried at the end because the horrible picture quality mixed with black and white strained ...( read more)
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