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Spencer Williams was an African American actor and filmmaker. He was best known for playing Andy in the Amos 'n Andy television show and for directing the 1941 race film The Blood of Jesus. Williams was a pioneer African-American film producer and director.
Total trailers found: 28
23 November 1929
A musical short starring Sam McDaniel and Spencer Williams.
28 September 1929
"Willie Dime," a big, bad taxi driver, is very jealous of "Miss Eva" and it burns him up to see any fool Jelly-bean "carrying on flirtatious flirtations with her.
20 April 1947
A seductive Harlem nightclub dancer arrives in the Caribbeans to perform. After two American military officers are enticed by her, a series of men soon find themselves attracted to her too.
31 December 1931
A one-reel comedy short in which a rivalry between two men is played out in a high-stakes game of mini golf.
01 January 1943
During World War II, a young African American is forced to continue his family’s tradition of military service when he's drafted into the Army.
01 January 1947
Hitchhiking conmen Bad News Johnson and July Jones arrive in Texas. A group of talented hopefuls vie for a coveted crown in a jitterbug contest.
19 April 1975
Actor, writer, director and activist Ossie Davis narrates this look at the history of race films, those produced from the 1920s-50s catered to a primarily Black audience.
01 May 1938
Wrongfully accused of murder, a cowboy winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like him.
01 January 1983
An exploration of The Amos 'n' Andy Show (1951), the first all-Black series on American television. It only lasted a few years before CBS succumbed to pressure from civil-rights groups, which claimed that it portrayed the Black community in a negative light.
09 December 1937
A wandering cowboy helps the daughter of a former outlaw find the gold her father stole twenty years earlier and return it to its owners.
02 February 1929
A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.
01 February 1939
Cowboys Bob Blake and his sidekick Dusty ride across the countryside in search of adventure. They come across a ranch where it appears a murder has taken place but they find the victim still alive.
26 April 1941
Housewife Martha dies after her husband Razz's shotgun inadvertently discharges. The congregation gathers at her 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, an agent for Satan.
02 January 1946
A plotless revue in a theatrical setting, offering 19 musical and dance numbers. Dizzy Gillespie and his band perform eight songs, including "Salt Peanuts", "One Bass Hit", "Oop Bop Sh'Bam" and "He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped".
01 January 1946
Aspiring small town singer Daisy Mae Walker travels to a big city in pursuit of showbusiness. A kindly cab driver and a troupe of down-and-out musicians at her hotel provide advice and support; but she falls prey to a sleazy nightclub owner who promises her stardom and makes her his 'kept woman'.
01 December 1940
After inheriting a manor from a reclusive wealthy doctor, a newlywed couple is surprised to discover a tempestuous ape-man lurking in the cellar.
01 January 1946
A Memphis street sweeper comes upon a large parcel of money, which he uses to embark on a spending spree in hopes of getting back at an old girlfriend who dumped him for another.
01 January 1944
After losing their parents in a flood at a young age, two brothers grow up to become a police officer and a lawyer, working alongside a local newspaper owner to help rid the city of bootlegging gangsters.
31 December 1942
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.
10 July 1939
Johnny Fraser leaves his mother in their small hometown and sets out for the big city, where he obtains a job with a large firm of architects.
27 April 1929
Privacy Robson is a downtrodden husband who takes advice from his friend Florian Slappey. He eventually gets the upper hand after starting divorce proceedings, pretending to have a new girlfriend and refusing to eat anything she cooks him.
01 January 1944
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.
01 January 1939
Bob Blake and his sidekick and four singing cowboys arrive at the Jackson ranch where Bob learns from Betty Jackson that her brother, Joe, is missing.
13 December 1945
US Navy produced short stars Joel Fluellen as a draftee from his civilian job at a black newspaper through boot camp and an assignment in the Pacific.
