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  Beale Street Mama

  Beale Street Mama is a 1946 race film directed by and starring Spencer Williams and distributed by Sack Amusement Enterprises. The film is set in Memphis, Tennessee and focuses on a street sweeper who comes upon a large parcel of money. He uses the newly-acquired wealth to go on a spending spree,...
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  Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus

  Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus (1942) was a race film directed and written by Spencer Williams. The film featured an all-black cast and was produced exclusively for exhibition in U.S. cinemas serving African American communities. It was among a number of religious-themed feature films created by...

• The Girl in Room 20

  The Girl in Room 20 is a 1949 race film directed by and starring Spencer Williams. The focuses on Daisy Mae Walker an aspiring singer from a small town in Texas, who comes to New York City to pursue a show business career, only to fall prey to a sleazy nightclub owner. Thanks to the intervention of...

• Go Down Death

  Go Down, Death! is a 1944 race film directed by and starring Spencer Williams. The film’s title derives from a poem by the African American writer James Weldon Johnson. Go Down Death takes place in an African American community where the criminal boss Big Jim Bottoms (Spencer Williams) runs a...

• Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.

  Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. is a 1946 race film directed by Spencer Williams and produced by Sack Amusement Enterprises. Gertie LaRue (Francine Everett) is a nightclub entertainer from the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. She arrives on the Caribbean island of "Rinidad" to perform as the...

• The Blood of Jesus

  The Blood of Jesus is a 1941 race film written, directed, and starring Spencer Williams. It is based on the poem "Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes, and has the alternate title The Glory Road. In a small rural village with an African American population, a church group is holding a riverside...