Midnight Shadow (1939) | All-Black Cast

Midnight Shadow is a 1939 film with an all African-American cast. It was directed and produced by George Randol, who was also African American.
The mind-reading Prince Alihabad courts a girl from Oklahoma played by Frances E. Redd. Her parents want to make her happy, but they do not like that Alihabad worships Allah. A killer is on the loose and locals fear that it might be Alihabad. - Wikipedia
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This movie is 82 years old. My Mom was 7 years old when this movie was made

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My Mom was born that year. We're both watching it now.

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I love a classic film with an all black cast,& doesn't have any racial stereotypes,& not a single blackface in one!!!!! Keep em coming!!!!!

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Same thing i noticed & loved not seeing as well!

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This was such a good movie, nice to see our people conduct themselves proper with dignity and class, even in the midst of criminal activities. Good guys win

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Wow!!!!!!!!! Just wow!!! Thank you for this!!!

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Strange, but many interesting details. The Ali Haban character referring to Allah, for instance; the Wilsons’ formal, but touching way of speaking to each other; the notion of setting aside oil land in favor of the future, rather than gutting it now & emptying the piggy bank to go shopping & a character named “Langley” who wants to work in fingerprint ID-ing for Mr. Hoover. Thank you, again ReelBlack, for a forgotten retrospective of 1939, during The Depression, too! When you think about what could’ve been accomplished had the progress been uninterrupted, if the filmmakers had ever had real support & real access, so much achievement & dignity could’ve been generated.

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I love these old movies.

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I'm pretty sure that's Dorothy Dandridge's mother, Ruby Dandridge, at 11:20.

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"(Black People) have demonstrated their ability of self-government by the orderly process of law of which they are capable when unhampered by outside influences."

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(White people)..."outside influences".

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Dignified men and women.

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I ❤Loved❤ this💯 Especially with an all black cast as well. Many of these films are forgotten,yet I'm happy to have found so many & this is one of them! Much Gratitude for this great classic share💯💖

[@Saphira4Q]

Thanks for sharing this movie. I have subscribed. Who was the guy with the deed? Was he the Prince’s partner? What actually killed the father?

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Awesome movie, thanks!

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Cute. Thanks Reelback Janice Harley

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Wow! I never knew that black film existed in those days the 1939 only movie I know "Stormy Weather" with Lena Horne that was in the forties.

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Enjoyed

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Black is always the most important color in every movie we watch.

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The first movie with a all black cast.

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"Midnight Shadow" Well, the name checks out.

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Did the title really need to say “all black cast”..?

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Wow. Islamophobia and Jim Crow at the same time. 🎬

[@darryl526]

ok what happened to the man who wanted to marry her? Didn't see him again until the end and I thought he was the murderer

[@darryl526]

i don't understand. Was he staying with them?

[@darryl526]

oh wait that wasn't the Priince man. I'm confused

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3rd trimester