Screenplay: Oscar Micheaux
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Oscar Micheaux. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Within Our Gates
1920 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Oscar Micheaux
Cast Evelyn Preer · Flo Clements · James D. Ruffin · Jack Chenault
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Swing!
1938 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Oscar Micheaux
Cast Cora Green · Larry Seymour · Hazel Diaz · Alec Lovejoy
Plot Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.
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The Girl from Chicago
1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Oscar Micheaux
Cast Grace Smith · Carl Mahon
Plot An undercover government agent on a case in Mississipi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss. He rescues the...
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God's Step Children
1938 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Oscar Micheaux
Cast Jacqueline Lewis · Ethel Moses · Alice B. Russell · Trixie Smith
Plot A young light-skinned Negress struggles to find her place in both the black and the white worlds.
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Birthright
1939 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Oscar Micheaux
Cast Carman Newsome · Ethel Moses · Alec Lovejoy · Trixie Smith
Plot A black Harvard graduate confronts racism.
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The Symbol of the Unconquered
1920 · Movie · 54 min. · United States
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...
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The Darktown Revue (S)
1931 · Movie · 18 min. · United States
Direction Oscar Micheaux
Cast Celeste Cole · Amon Davis · Tim Moore · Andrew Tribble
Plot Musical numbers and comedy routines.
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Murder in Harlem
1935 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Oscar Micheaux · Clarence Williams
Cast Clarence Brooks · Dorothy Van Engle · Andrew Bishop · Alec Lovejoy
Plot A black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After he reports it, he finds himself accused of the murder.
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Ten Minutes to Live
1932 · Movie · 58 min. · United States
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...
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Body and Soul
1925 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
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...
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The Betrayal
1948 · Movie · 183 min. · United States
Direction Oscar Micheaux
Cast William Byrd · Leroy Collins · Verlie Cowan · Frances De Young
Plot The Unforgettable story of Martin Eden, young Negro man of Conquest, who built an agricultural empire in the Dakota Wilderness - with the strangest love story ever told!
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The Gunsaulus Mystery
1921 · Movie · min. · United States
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.
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The Exile
1931 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Oscar Micheaux
Cast Eunice Brooks · Stanley Morrell · Celeste Cole · Kathleen Noisette
Plot A young man named Jean in post-World War I Chicago falls in love with a beautiful girl named Edith. He proposes to her, but realizes that she's involved in the...
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The Homesteader
1919 · Movie · min. · United States
Direction Oscar Micheaux · Jerry Mills
Cast Charles D. Lucas · Evelyn Preer · Iris Hall · Inez Smith
Plot The Homesteader involves six principal characters, the leading one being Jean Baptiste (Charles Lucas), a homesteader far off in the Dakotas, the lone African American living in the area. To...
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Underworld
1937 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Oscar Micheaux
Cast Bee Freeman · Sol Johnson · 'Slick' Chester · Ethel Moses
Plot A young college student falls under the influence of a murderous gambler.
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Veiled Aristocrats
1932 · Movie · 48 min. · United States
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...
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