Slideshow
MURDER IN HARLEM
U.S., 1935
Written and directed by Oscar Micheaux
Starring Clarence Brooks, Dorothy Van Engle, Andrew S. Bishop, Alice B. Russell
Cinematography by Charles Levine
Approx. 96 min. 4K DCP restoration from materials preserved in the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection, Southern Methodist University.
Micheaux’s remake of his own GUNSAULUS MYSTERY (1921), based on an actual case in which a Black night watchman becomes the primary suspect after he discovers a white woman’s body. Micheaux himself appears in a cameo as a detective.