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Micheaux Film Company, 1925. Paul Robeson's first film: an escaped convict in a preacher's collar, and the decent inventor brother the girl would rather have. New York's board rejected the nine-reel cut as sacrilegious, then made Micheaux take it down to five. George Eastman House holds a nitrate that still looks closer to the first version. It is the only picture Robeson made with a Black director.
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Robeson's first film and the only one he made with a Black director. He plays the preacher as a con man who knows exactly how a room works. New York's board cut it from nine reels to five; the Eastman nitrate is closer to what he shot.
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