The Brute (1920) [Lost Film]

Starring:

• Evelyn Preer
• Sam Langford
• Lawrence Chenault 
• Laura Bowman 
• Flo Clements 
• A.B. DeComathiere
• Susie Sutton 
• Mattie Edwards 
• Alice Gorgas 
• E.G. Tatum

Storyline
Directed by Oscar Micheaux. The story is of a beautiful and tender girl in the clutches of a shrewd gambler and boss of the underworld where the creed is "to make a woman love you, knock her down." Sam Langford, the boxer, battles against lynching in the South in this Micheaux melodrama which was shut down by Southern police. Evelyn Peer is the beautiful girl who falls into the clutches of the underworld brute.  

**This film is considered lost until notified otherwise**

 

Nobody's Children (1920) [Lost Film]

Starring:

• Richard Maurice
• Jacques Farmer
• Joe Green

Storyline
It tells of the death of the mother of two illegitimate children, a boy and a girl. A deathbed promise is made by the former that he will look after and protect his sister. The stepfather is a no-account type whose time is spent in the resorts of the underworld. It is during the search in a resort for him by a boy that a murder is committed and for which the lad is falsely accused, tried, convicted and sentenced to hang. The stepparent abducts the girl and takes her to one of the resorts where he is known. The actual slayer is a dope fiend. He discovers the girls' presence and decides to aid the brother to escape from jail so that he might rescue his sister. The consummation of this escape and the hand-to-hand fight which rakes place in the room in which the stepfather had placed the girl, and in which the boy kills the unnatural parent, furnishes one of the most gripping climaxes ever seen on the screen. -Excerpted from the review in the Norfolk Journal and Guide.

Within Our Gates (1920)

Starring:

• Evelyn Preer 
• Flo Clements 
• James D. Ruffin
• William Smith
• Jack Chenault 
• Charles D. Lucas 
• Bernice Ladd 
• Mrs. Evelyn 
• William Starks 
• Mattie Edwards 
• Ralph Johnson 
• E.G. Tatum 

Storyline
In this early silent film from pioneering director Oscar Micheaux, kindly Sylvia Landry (Evelyn Preer) takes a fundraising trip to Boston in hopes of collecting $5,000 to keep a Southern school for impoverished black children open to the public. She then meets the warmhearted Dr. Vivian (Charles D. Lucas), who falls in love with Sylvia and travels with her back to the South. There, Dr. Vivian learns about Sylvia's shocking, tragic past and realizes that racism has changed her life forever.

The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)

 Starring:

• Iris Hall
• Walker Thompson
• Lawrence Chenault
• Mattie Wilkes 
• Louis Dean 
• Leigh Whipper 
• Jim Burris 
• E.G. Tatum

Storyline
After the death of her grandfather, Evon Mason, a young black woman from Selma, Alabama, travels to the Northwest to identify the mine claim she had been willed. There, Evon meets Hugh Van Allen, a black man seeking his fortune. Hugh, who loves Evon but thinks that she is white, discovers oil, thereby arousing the enmity of Tom Cutschawl, a racist Southerner, and Jefferson Driscoll, a black man passing for white who hates his own race. These two provoke an attack of the Ku Klux Klan to drive Hugh off the land, but Evon rescues Hugh, and the Klan is routed. Evon and Hugh eventually resolve their misunderstanding and live happily ever after.