Eleven P.M. (1928)

Starring:

• Richard Maurice 
• Sammie Fields
• Orine Johnson
• Wanda Maurice 
• Leo Pope 
• Eugene Williams 
• H. Marion Williams

Storyline
Produced in Detroit, Michigan by little known African-American filmmaker Richard Maurice, Eleven P.M. is a surreal melodrama in which a poor violinist named Sundaisy (Maurice) tries to protect an orphan girl (Wand Maurice) from a small-time hoodlum. The story, which may or may not be a dream concocted by a struggling newspaperman, has one of the most bizarre endings in film history, when the spirit of the deceased Sundaisy possess the body of a dog in order to take vengeance upon the crook. 

This film was restored by Kino Lorber which was archived in the Library of Congress and released in a 5 disc box set: Pioneers of African American Cinema. 

The Exile (1931)

Starring:

• Eunice Brooks 
• Stanley Morrell 
• Celeste Cole
• Kathleen Noisette 
• Charles R. Moore 
• Nora Newsome 
• George Randol   
• A.B. DeComathiere
• Carl Mahon 
• Louise Cook

 Storyline
A young man named Jean (Stanley Morrell) in post-World War I Chicago falls in love with a beautiful girl named Edith (Eunice Brooks). He proposes to her, but realizes that she's involved in the rackets and won't leave them, so he goes back home to South Dakota, where he becomes a successful rancher. There he falls for a white girl, but guilt drives him back to Chicago, where he runs into Edith again, and they agree to marry. When Edith is later found murdered, Jean is blamed for the crime. 

This film was restored by Kino Lorber which was archived in the Library of Congress and released in a 5 disc box set: Pioneers of African American Cinema.