Race Movies: The Girl in Room 20/Son of Ingagi/The Girl From Chicago/Lying Lips
by Spencer Williams, Oscar Micheaux
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Actor: Edna Mae Harris, Geraldine Brock, Grace Smith, July Jones, Spencer WilliamsDirector: Oscar Micheaux, Spencer Williams
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 262 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Race Movies: The Girl in Room 20/Son of Ingagi/The Girl From Chicago/Lying Lips
DVD Review: Race Movies survive
Summary: 4 Stars
Everyone should get their hands on these films that are so out of circulation. The plots were suited to the day and were quite thin and flimsy, but to see them is worth sitting through them and having a good laugh. These important films are a boon to any serious collector,
DVD Review: Race film 4-pack includes horror and murder/mysteries
Summary: 3 Stars
"Race movies," a genre unique to the United States between 1915 and 1947, were quite popular with black Southern audiences and in Northern industrial cities that had large African American communities. After the successful legal desegregation of the film industry in 1948, this type of movie vanished, literally. Today, only a fifth of the original 500 race films still exist.
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"The Girl From Chicago" - A Secret Service agent falls in love with a schoolteacher in a small Mississippi town. They leave for New York City to escape a local crime boss, but trouble follows them there.
"The Girl in Room 20" - A country girl with a fine singing voice moves to the big city to seek her fortune. She finds both support and grief in her struggle to succeed.
"Lying Lips" - A nightclub singer is wrongly convicted of murdering her aunt. Her manager and a policeman continue searching for the actual killer.
"Son of Ingagi" - The first horror film with an "all-colored cast." This was a sequel to 1931's "Ingagi," and is the story of an American missionary who returns from the jungles with $20,000 in gold nuggets and an ape-like man.
A similar 4-movie collection is Race Films: The Duke Is Tops/The Black King/Spirit Of Youth/The Glove.
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Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings found at a film resource website.
(5.3) The Girl From Chicago (1932) - Grace Smith/Carl Mahon/Starr Calloway/John Everett
(3.3) The Girl in Room 20 (1946) - Geraldine Brock/Spencer Williams/R. Jore/July Jones
(5.5) Lying Lips (1939) - Edna Mae Harris/Robert Earl Jones/Carmen Newsome/Armanda Randolph
(3.5) Son of Ingagi (1940) - Zach Williams/Laura Bowman/Alfred Grant/Spencer Williams/The Four Toppers
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