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
James Weldon Johnson Author
L.J. Powell Editor
H.W. Kier Director of Photography
United States 01 January 1944
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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.
26 October 1944
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25 May 1944
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14 March 1944
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22 April 1944
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03 March 1944
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16 August 1944
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22 June 1944
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