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Monday, January 9, 2017

Am I Guilty? (1940) [Lost Film]





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The story tells of a courage young Negro doctor whose high ideals lead him to attempt the establishment of a clinic in the slum district in which he was born. Dr. Dunbar falls into the hands of the Bennett gang, which is badly in need of a "mob doctor" to "fix up" wondered members. Bennett, through his lawyer, donates $8,000 to Dunbar to establish his clinic. Dunbar is eventually forced to accompany the gang on a series of breath-taking escapades, which finally end in the death of Bennett and the capture of the gang. 

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

Sunday, January 8, 2017

Temptation (1935) [Lost Film]











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An Oscar Micheaux film. Helen Ware, an artist's model, known as the Brown Venus is sad, discouraged and unhappy. When her men friends learn that she often poses nude, they try to become unduly "friendly" or just shun her, with the result that a beautiful girl with the figure of a Goddess finds herself without a lover. In desperation, she goes to a notorious night club and is later seen about to start on the downward trail. In New York's Harlem section, gangdom is running riot. Gangster Kid Cotton kills a man and runs away with the man's sweetheart, who is unaware of the crime until she reads about it in a newspaper at the "Mad Mullah" club in Chicago. Helen is near their table, overhears their discussion of the killing, and later finds herself involved in the case. Government undercover man Robert Fletcher trails Cotton to Chicago, and a peculiar twist of fate brings Helen to his hotel room, and a most intimate situation follows.

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

Wages of Sin (1929) [Lost Film]

 



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An Oscar Micheaux film. The tragic story of two brothers. Winston, the eldest, and J. Lee, the youngest. Sworn to take care of his younger brother at the request of his mother on her death bed. Winston soon regrets his promise. Winston hires his brother, who immediately begins to steal from the company. Winston eventually fires his brother, goes away, falls in love, returns home only to weaken and rehire his brother. J. Lee continues to ruin the company, but as usual everything ends well.

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

Up Jumped The Devil (1941) [Lost Film]





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A very funny and silly movie with Mantan Moreland and Shelton Brooks. They play two parolees out looking for a job. They apply and get a job on a wealthy estate as a butler and a maid. Of course, Mantan plays a big chested maid and Sheldon the butler. The plot basically involves a shady swamie trying to steal the lady of the estate's jewelry and succeeding. Enter Mantan and Shaldon to trick swamie into getting the jewelry back and having him arrested.  

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