Ten Minutes To Live (1932)

Starring:

• Lawrence Chenault
• A.B. DeComathiere 
• Laura Bowman
• Carl Mahon
• Lorenzo Tucker 
• Willor Lee Guilford 
• Tressie Mitchell 

Storyline
A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that she'll soon get another note, and that she will be killed ten minutes after that.

Resisting the stagebound atmosphere of The Exile, Micheaux found ways to shoot a talking picture on location, without cumbersome and expensive audio recording equipment. He did this by making one of his characters deaf and having much dialog spoken off-camera (so it could be dubbed later).