Midnight Menace (1946 film)
| Midnight Menace | |
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| Directed by | Josh Binney |
| Produced by | All-American News Al Sack |
| Music by | Fats Waller Andy Razaf |
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Midnight Menace is a short American musical film released in 1946. It was produced by All-American News and Al Sack. Josh Binney directed. The plot involves a Voodoo practitioner making dead bodies appear around Lollypop Jones. The film features songs by Fats Waller and Andy Razaf.[1] An alternative description of the plot says the film is about a Voodoo practitioner hypnotizing a man's wife and using her in his stage show.[2]
The film was advertised as having an "All Colored Cast". Jones also starred in Chicago After Dark and Lucky Gamblers.[3]
Cast[edit]
- Sybil Lewis
- Lollypop Jones
- George Wiltshire
- James Dunsmore
- Harold Coke
- Leon Poke
- Amos Austin
- Alma Jones
- Jimmy Walker
- Black Diamond Dollies[4]
Songs[edit]
- "Don't Sell My Monkey Baby"
- "Honeysuckle Rose"
References[edit]
- ^ Webb, Graham (July 10, 2020). Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959. McFarland. ISBN 9781476639260 – via Google Books.
- ^ Weisenfeld, Judith (June 8, 2007). Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929–1949. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520940666 – via Google Books.
- ^ Pitts, Michael R. (19 April 2019). Astor Pictures: A Filmography and History of the Reissue King, 1933-1965. McFarland. ISBN 9781476636283.
- ^ Richards, Larry (September 17, 2015). African American Films Through 1959: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography. McFarland. ISBN 9781476610528 – via Google Books.
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