The owner of a juke joint arranges to frame an innocent preacher with a scandalous photograph, but his scheme backfires when his own adoptive mother interferes.
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Spencer Williams as Big Jim Bottoms
Myra D. Hemmings as Caroline "Mama Carrie" Bottoms
Samuel H. James as Jasper the Preacher
Sam Elljay Writer
Spencer Williams Director
H.W. Kier Director of Photography
L.J. Powell Editor
James Weldon Johnson Author
United States 01 January 1944
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01 December 1944
Animated short from Halas and Batchelor encouraging the British public to post early for Christmas.
20 May 1944
Soldiers Steve and Jim are friends but when their enlistment ends, Jim reenlists while Steve doesn't.
01 August 1944
Social Democratic election film. Young Lasse is unemployed and drawn to the Communists. However, he comes to the Social Democratic fold after heroically capturing a saboteur.
01 January 1944
Shops, clubs, theatres, traffic in the Piccadilly Circus, Pall Mall and Regent Street areas.
22 October 1944
A romantic comedy about a writer coming back to Finland is bored with the High Society life and starts a modeling job for a young and beautiful painter Ilona.
22 April 1944
Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to break into radio as a soloist for a band.
25 May 1944
Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves in competition.
22 September 1944
Popeye and Shorty help Olive move. Unfortunately, they start by running into a police car, and keep running afoul of the officer.
08 February 1944
A young Eastern lawyer, seriously injured in a stage holdup, secures the help of Hoppy, California and Jimmy in completing his mission to his woman cousin's ranch in Texas.
16 August 1944
An architect (Chick Chandler) studies the doors of six shops and an apartment house to solve a gem theft/double murder.
03 June 1944
Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged with a physical defect, but he tells no one of this.
23 November 1944
In Madrid, Spain, at the end of the 19th century, the young and reckless Basilio seems to be the only person who perceives the spectral presence of Professor Robinsón de Mantua, who begs him to take care of his niece Inés, because she is in grave danger.
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