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Midnight Shadow is a 1939 film with an all African-American cast. It was directed and produced by George Randol, who was also African American.
Plot
The mind-reading Prince Alihabad courts a girl from Oklahoma played by Frances E. Redd. Her parents want to make her happy, but they do not like that Alihabad worships Allah. A killer is on the loose and locals fear that it might be Alihabad.
Cast
Frances Redd as Margaret Wilson
Buck Woods as Lightfoot
Richard Bates as Jr. Lingley
Clinton Rosemond as Mr. Dan Wilson
Jesse Lee Brooks as Sergeant Ramsey
Edward Brandon as Buster Barnett
Ollie Ann Robinson as Mrs. Emma Wilson
Laurence Criner (billed as John Criner) as Prince Alihabad
Pete Webster (actor) as John Mason
Ruby Dandridge as Mrs. Lingley
Napoleon Simpson as Mr. Ernest Lingley
Book coverage
The film was briefly discussed in terms of plot and as an African American production in the books Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949 and Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African American Life.
References
External links
Full Cast and Crew: Midnight Shadow (1939), IMdB
Midnight Shadow at AllMovie
Midnight Shadow at the TCM Movie Database
Midnight Shadow at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
"Ruth Lankford Redd Accompanies the Negro Community Chorus of Columbia, Missouri", undated photograph from Columbia, MO includes John Roland Redd's sisters Ruth Lankford Redd (accompanist) and Frances Elizabeth Redd, Collection: African Americans in Northeast Missouri, Hannibal Free Library
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