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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