that British leading man Dirk Bogarde was an Intelligence operative during World War II?

Black Artists

        Beware! (1946)

Director: Bud Pollard.
Cast: Louis Jordan, Valerie Black, Frank L. Wilson, Emory Richardson, The Tympani Five.
Description: Louis Jordan and his Tympani Five play a gig at his alma mater, and end up trying to save the school from bankruptcy while playing music and romancing his old girlfriend. Produced by Bud Pollard and Robert M. Savini. Edited by Bud Pollard. Written by John E. Gordon. Cinematography by Don Malkames.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 57 mins.   Item #1676  $14.99
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        Big Timers (1945)

Director: Bud Pollard.
Cast: Duke Williams, Lou Swarz, Gertrude Saunders, Stepin Fetchit, Tarzana The Whoopie Dancer, Jackie "Moms" Mabley.
Description: Musical short about what happens when a young girl catches the eye of an Army officer. Produced by E. M. Glucksman. Edited by Bud Pollard.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 40 mins.   Item #1673  $14.99
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        The Black King (aka Harlem Hot Shot) (1932)

Director: Bud Pollard.
Cast: A.B. Comathiere, Vivian Baber, Knolly Mitchell, Dan Michaels.
Description: Comedy drama concerning a conman leading a bogus back-to-Africa movement who takes advantage of other blacks who think of him as their savior. Based on the life of Marcus Garvey. Produced by Alfred N. Sack.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 72 mins.   Item #1468  $14.99
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        Blood Of Jesus (1941)

Director: Spencer Williams, (Jr.)
Cast: Cathryn Caviness, Spencer Williams (Jr.), Juanita Riley, Reather Hardeman.
Description: An atheist husband accidentally shoots his newly-baptized wife, causing an uproar in their rural town and eternal danger when she is tempted by the Devil at the Crossroads of Life. Produced by Alfred N. Sack and Spencer Williams Jr. Written by Spencer Williams, Jr.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 60 mins.   Item #2392  $14.99
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        Boardinghouse Blues (1948)

Director: Josh Binney
Cast: Jackie "Moms" Mabley, Dusty Fletcher, Marcellus Wilson, Lucky Millinder, Una Mae Carlisle, Bull Moose Jackson.
Description: The inhabitants of Moms' theatrical boarding house in Harlem are broke, in danger of losing their home. For some quick cash, they put on a show with a variety of black specialty acts. Produced by E. M. Glucksman. Written by Hal Seeger.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 87 mins.   Item #1677  $14.99
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        Body and Soul (1925)

Director: Oscar Micheaux
Cast: Paul Robeson, Julia Theresa Russell, Lawrence Chenault, Mercedes Gilbert, Marshall Rogers, Lillian Johnson.
Description: A church minister, a man on earth who has fallen. Behind his righteous man of God facade, he is a corrupted human. Overturn by his own inner vices and his own weakness. Fighting sin with sin he prophets from the extortion of a local gambling house and his corrupted heart corrupts the innocence around him. One man will fall and one man will struggle towards the true path of righteousness.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 100 mins.   Item #5497  $14.99
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        Boy! What a Girl (1945)

Director: Arthur H. Leonard.
Cast: Tim "Kingfish" Moore, Elwood Smith, Duke Williams, The Brown Dots, Gene Krupa (cameo), Ann Cornell (cameo).
Description: Moore plays a producer who dons women's clothing to ensure that the show will go on! Don't miss Kingfish in drag! Produced by Jack Goldberg and Arthur H. Leonard.Written by Vincent Valentini.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 69 mins.   Item #1678  $14.99
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        Broken Strings (1940)

Director: Bernard B. Ray
Cast: Clarence Muse, Sybil Lewis, William Washington, Tommie Moore, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, The Stevens Sisters.
Description: After an accident limits the use of his left hand, a concert violinist becomes a music teacher and constantly clashes with his jazz and swing-loving son. Produced by Lewie C. Borden.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 60 mins.   Item #1023  $14.99
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        The Bronze Buckaroo (1939)

Director: Richard C. Kahn
Cast: Herbert Jeffries, Spencer Williams, Jr., Artie Young, Clarence Brooks.
Description: Five cowboys ride from Texas to Arizona to help their friend defend his ranch from a ruthless ranch hand and avenge the murder of his father. Produced and written by Richard C. Kahn.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 57 mins.   Item #1617  $14.99
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        The Devil's Daughter (1939)

Director: Arthur H. Leonard.
Cast: Nina Mae McKinney, Jack Carter, Ida James, Hamtree Harrington, Willa Mae Lane, Emmett 'Babe' Wallace.
Description: Comedy-drama set in Jamaica as a voodoo high priestess clashes with her innocent half-sister over their late father's plantation. Produced by Arthur H. Leonard and Alfred N. Sack. Written by George Terwilliger and Leon Lee.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 60 mins.   Item #1181  $14.99
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        Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. (1946)

Director: Spencer Williams, (Jr.)
Cast: Francine Everette, Don Wilson, Katherine Moore, Alfred Hawkins, Spencer Williams.
Description: Gertie, a sexy, enticing dancer from Harlem stirs things up in a sleepy Caribbean island resort. Produced by Alfred N. Sack and Bert Goldberg. Written by True T. Thompson, based on the W. Somerset Maugham novel, "Miss Thompson".
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 60 mins.   Item #2486  $14.99
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        Double Deal (1939)

Director: Arthur Dreifuss.
Cast: Monte Hawley, Jeni Le Gon, Edward Thompson, Florence "Suli May" O'Brien, Freddie Jackson.
Description: Shifty hood robs a jewelry store and tries to pin the crime on his rival. Produced by Dixon R. Harwin and George Randol. Written by Arthur Hoerl.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 60 mins.   Item #2789  $14.99
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        The Duke Is Tops (1938)

Director: William L. Nolte.
Cast: Lena Horne, Ralph Cooper, Laurence Criner, Monte Hawley, Willie Covan, Vernon McCalla, Rubberneck Holmes.
Description: In Horne's film debut, she plays a woman who gets her big break but soon finds herself caught in the chioce between love and fame. Produced by Harry M. Popkin and Leo C. Popkin. Written by Phil Dunham.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 80 mins.   Item #2012  $14.99
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        The Emperor Jones (1933)

Director: Dudley Murphy.
Cast: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson, Fredi Washington, Ruby Elzy, Rex Ingram, Jackie "Moms" Mabley.
Description: The rise and fall of a railroad porter, from a life sentence on a chain gang to being emperor of a Caribbean island. Produced by Gifford Cochran, John Krimsky and William C. de Mille. Written by DuBose Heyward from the play by Eugene O'Neill.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 72 mins.   Item #1542  $14.99
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        Gang War (1940)

Director: Leo C. Popkin.
Cast: Ralph Cooper, Gladys Snyder, Reginald Fenderson, Laurence Criner, Monte Hawley, Ernest "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison.
Description: Two gangs fight for the control of profits from New York's jukebox business. Produced by Harry M. Popkin. Written by Lewis Sherman.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 63 mins.   Item #2554  $14.99
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        Go Down Death (1941)

Director: Spencer Williams
Cast: Spencer Williams, Myra D. Hemmings, Samuel H. James, Eddy L. Houston, Amos Droughan.
Description: Gangster finds his business failing after an enthusiastic preacher comes to town. He takes compromising pictures of the preacher with some girls, with tragic results. Produced by Alfred N. Sack. Written by Spencer Williams, from a poem by James Weldon Johnson.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 60 mins.   Item #2576  $14.99
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        God's Step Children (1938)

Director: Oscar Micheaux.
Cast: Jacqueline Lewis, Ethel Moses, Alice B. Russell, Trixie Smith, Charles Thompson.
Description: Controversial story about a light-skinned black woman whose resentment of her heritage leads to tragedy as she struggles to find her place in both the black and white worlds. Produced and written by Oscar Micheaux.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 65 mins.   Item #1618  $14.99
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      Harlem Rides the Range   Harlem Rides the Range (1939)

Director: Richard C. Kahn
Cast: Herbert Jeffries, Spencer Williams, Jr., Lucius Brooks, F.E. Miller, Artie Young, The Four Tones.
Description: Exciting western saga of singing cowboy who outsmarts the outlaws who stole the deed to a uranium mine. Produced by Richard C. Kahn. Written by Spencer Williams, Jr. and F. E. Miller.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 58 mins.   Item #2316  $14.99
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      Hi De Ho   Hi De Ho (1947)

Director: Josh Binney.
Cast: Cab Calloway, Ida James, Jeni Le Gon, William Campbell, Virginia Girvin, Augustus Smith.
Description: Cab Calloway plays a bandleader who is torn between two lovers: his jealous, money grubbing girlfriend Minnie and his hard-working manager Nettie. While Nettie swings a new gig at the Brass Hat Club, Minnie con a gangster to put the kibosh on Calloway. At the eleventh hour she has a change of heart, but can she reach the mobster in time? Songs include: "Minnie's a Hepcat Now", "I Got a Gal Named Nettie", "Don't Falter at the Altar", "Hey, Now!", "At Dawn Time" and more. Produced by E.M. Glucksman. Written by Hal Seeger. Original music by Cab Calloway and Elton Hill. Cinematography by Don Malkames.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 72 mins.   Item #1002  $14.99
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        The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)

Director: Alfred E. Green.
Cast: Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson, Louise Beavers, Ben Lessy.
Description: Robinson plays himself in this autobiographical account of his groundbreaking entry as the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Produced by Mort Briskin and William Joseph Heineman.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 76 mins.   Item #1560  $14.99
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