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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16 August 1944
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01 January 1944
With a plot line mostly lifted from 1941's "White Eagle", Columbia's 24th serial (following "The Desert Hawk-1944" and ahead of 1945's "Brenda Starr, Reporter"), "Black Arrow" finds carpet-baggers Jake Jackson and Buck Sherman arriving in Blue Mesa in search of gold.
12 February 1944
Professional bullfighter pretends to his girlfriend that he's a doctor, because her father hates bullfighters and would never let her marry one.
10 November 1944
The baron of Santafusca, descended from a noble family, leads a dissipated life. To pay debts he is forced to sell his house.
17 May 1944
Charles Starrett stars in the lightning-paced Columbia western Riding West. Somebody is planning to sabotage the new Pony Express mail service, and hard-ridin' Steve Jordan (Charles Starrett) aims to find out who.
31 December 1944
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07 October 1944
Henny Brown, talent scout for the Margaret Ames Film Agency in Hollywood, mistakes Broadway show understudies Judy and Marian, for stars Betty and Eileen, and signs them up for movies.
29 July 1944
This one finds Jack Slade and Mary Conway,alias Blanche, being recognized as known and wanted crooks by deputy marshal Harry Stevens and, when he orders them out of town, Slade kills him.
21 October 1944
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone.
23 March 1944
In this wartime western, an evil Nazi and his partner endeavor to sabotage a western gunsight plant.
28 April 1944
Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field.
01 January 1944
Shops, clubs, theatres, traffic in the Piccadilly Circus, Pall Mall and Regent Street areas.
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