Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five cents between them. The duo arrange to become boarders at the home of Louella "Mama Lou" Holiday, who is fooled into believing Johnson is an acting teacher from Hollywood. Mrs. Holiday agrees to give the men free room and board if they will provide poise lessons to her daughter, an aspiring beauty queen named Honey Dew.
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 attracts the attention of several men.
Razz accidentally shoots his wife Martha when his hunting rifle drops on the floor and discharges. The church congregation gathers at Martha’s bedside to pray for her recovery, and during this period an angel arrives to take Martha’s spirit from her body, but she is tempted by the slick Judas Green, who is an agent for Satan.
Sylvia Walton returns from Harlem to take over a Jamaican plantation from her vindictive half-sister, amid the growing sound of drums.
1937 short film nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Short Subject, Two Reel.
Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight.
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 by Pope John XXIII.
In Louisiana, a voodoo priestess and a minister preach their religion to the same community. One day, an evil man named Tom comes into town and tries to force the minister's daughter to go with him to his sinful place across the river where all manners of "evil" things occur like drinking and gambling! It's up to the voodoo priestess to stop Tom before he can corrupt the innocent girl.
A millionaire goes to Las Vegas and has an affair with a sex-addicted girl, while his wife is back at home.
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 owner to help rid the city of bootlegging gangsters.
Crime comedy.
Joey and Earlene return to the desert to retrieve their buried loot, only to find that a new home has been built on top of the spot they buried it. The homeowners are a young married couple, and when the husband leaves for work one morning Joey, Earlene and an accomplice break into the house in order to dig through the floor to get their money, tying up the helpless young wife. However, the wife turns out not to be quite as "helpless" as she seems.
Compilation film of various African-American performers and acts.
A young college student falls under the influence of a murderous gambler.
A Leslie Goodwins' feature film.
