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SOULS OF SIN
U.S., 1949
Directed by Powell Lindsay
Starring Savannah Churchill, William Greaves, Jimmy Wright, Billie Allen, Powell Lindsay
Produced by William D. Alexander
Approx. 64 min. 4K restoration.
William Greaves stars as blues musician Isaiah “Alabama” Lee, one of three young Black men seeking fame and success in Harlem. “SOULS OF SIN helped launch a new wave of race movies—sadly, at a time when the race movie movement was about to end.” – Donald Bogle
4K restoration courtesy Southern Methodist University
Presented with support from The Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s