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Elsie (Edna Mae Harris), a highly popular singer at a nightclub, refuses to go to
private parties with some gangster-costumers, & only the club's
manager Hadnot (Carman Newsome) is backing her moral standpoint. He is fired of course,
& the management taken over by some of Elsies ruthless distant
relatives. When Elsie arrives home one night, she finds her aunt she
lives with shot in the head, & is taken into police custody for
being the prime suspect in the case - her alibi being shattered by the
testimony of the ruthless relatives mentioned above. Re-enter HAdnot,
ex-manager on the way to become a detective, & the only man still
believing she is innocent. He soon uncovers a plot of said relatives to
blame her for a murder she didn't commit & get the insurance money
from the aunt's death. But who killed her ? In the end the culprit turns
out to be the husband of the female part (Frances E.Williams) of said relatives, who was
secretly in love with the aunt, but as he couldn't get her he killed
her, & then himself, all that was neatly hushed up by the relatives
though. Elsie is set free to marry Hadnot. Very cheap all
coloured cast crime-drama, which is - as it plays in the nightclub-scene
anyways - interrupted ever so often by song-&-dance routines by
coloured artists, proving that they could do on a shoestring what their
white counterparts could do with tenfolds the money (don't expect Busby
Berkeley here, though). However, these musical numbers do interrupt the thin
story not always to its advantage, more often than not rather disturbing
the already lame proceedings. All in all, a rather dull affair. Oscar
Micheaux by the way was one lof the pioneers of black filmmaking, being
one of the first black directors & producers in the early 1920's.
And though he did sometimes manage to infuse criticism of race
segregation into his movies, he was also critizised ever so often for
showing nothing more than black stereotypes in his films. |
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