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Micheaux's first sound film, 1931: a young man (Stanley Morrell) is torn between a Chicago nightclub owner and a South Dakota farm girl. Micheaux himself had been a homesteader; the prairie is not research. Independent, rough sync, a film about class inside a Black world Hollywood did not photograph. The exile is the man who left the land. The picture is him trying to decide whether to go back.
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The earliest surviving sound feature by a Black director, and it sounds like it: rough sync, long takes, a camera nailed down. The story is his own life on a South Dakota claim, and that is why it is here. Listen past the recording.
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