Cast: Lawrence Chenault

Direction Oscar Micheaux

Cast Iris Hall · Walker Thompson · Lawrence Chenault · Mattie Wilkes

Plot Eve Mason, a very light-skinned negro, leaves Selma, Alabama for the northwest town of Oristown to occupy the land she inherited from her grandfather. There she meets kindly Hugh Van...

Direction Oscar Micheaux

Cast Andrew Bishop · Lawrence Chenault · Shingzie Howard · Edna Morton

Plot The misadventures of a man who accepted a bet to spend a night in a haunted house.

Direction Roy Calnek

Cast Charles Gilpin · Myra Burwell · Lawrence Chenault · Harry Henderson

Plot A man is swindled out of his mill business and turns to drink. After losing his daughter who is hit in the head by a glass during a bar brawl,...

Direction Oscar Micheaux

Cast Lawrence Chenault · A.B. DeComathiere · Laura Bowman · Willor Lee Guilford

Plot A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a...

Direction Frank Peregini

Cast Harry Henderson · Norman Johnstone · Ann Kennedy · Lucia Lynn Moses

Plot An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather, who beats and abuses her. However,...

Direction Oscar Micheaux

Cast Paul Robeson · Marshall Rogers · Lawrence Chenault · Chester A. Alexander

Plot A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving...

Direction Oscar Micheaux

Cast Evelyn Preer · Edward R. Abrams · Lawrence Chenault · Louis De Bulger

Plot A young black man is accused of the murder of a white woman.

Direction Oscar Micheaux

Cast J. Homer Tutt · Evelyn Preer · Salem Tutt Whitney · Lawrence Chenault

Plot A young black Harvard graduate fights against a variety of obstacles, including racist opposition, in order to build a school for black children.

Direction Oscar Micheaux

Cast Lucille Lewis · Walter Fleming · Laura Bowman · Lawrence Chenault

Plot John Walden, left home 20 years earlier and has been "passing" as white in a town where no one knew of his background. He returns home to take his now...