Way Down South

This 1939 movie plot was written by Langston Hughes. The
screenplay was written by Clarence Muse and Langston Hughes.
Clarence Muse also star in the movie and also co-directed it.
Both Clarence Muse and Langston Hughes had intelligent and
genius minds. Clarence Muse and Langston Hughes use slavery
as the avenue for this movie.

[@raymondgage7959]

All you need now, are Green Pastures and Cabin in The sky..

[@Webbgurl2000]

I know it’s hard to watch/triggering, but when I think of what the ancestors went through for Me, I watched anyway. It’s the least I could do.

[@alisonlamontagne2170]

Starting to watch these films of my ancestors but u know hard to watch..

[@shirleyharris1335]

Don’t usually watch these types of movies, but may start watching, because Legacies of Ancestral Talent Reigns in 2024! Its okay to connect the past according to Sankofa! ❤ 🙏🏽 ✌🏽

[@juliorodriques1664]

No such harmony during those days in that era.

[@timothyypearson]

Exactly im watching saying the same thing

[@cathy5072]

Julio Rodriques YES!

[@randyparker1759]

That's Matthew Stymie Beard from. The Little Rascals

[@WhoToldYouThatAtlanta]

As an identified Hebrew I can appreciate the story line of RIGHTEOUS JUDGEMENT PREVAILS IN THE END‼️🙏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💕

[@Kappariyah]

Shalom ahcoti!

[@DeeNice681]

This was written by Langston Hughes and Clarence Muse, but the producers of the film changed a lot of the script. The "good slave sholuld never be naughty" slap was added in by the producers. The movie was supposed to be way more revolutionary, the producers and movie execs ruined it!

[@faith9chang]

DeeNice681 I would love to read the original script. Is it available?

[@brownlettuce1810]

Yeah, They insisted it be realistic instead of the currently popular propaganda of mean old white people.

[@AJENKINS1920]

I would love to read the original script....which was way different from the movie

[@kennethyoung8908]

Just think some of them might have being Great great Grandfather an grandma's an all kind of family members on this movie we are very intelligent human beings don t ever for get can't keep of DOWN you when clean up we sing.

[@lawsonj39]

Pretty incredible that this depiction of racial harmony in the antebellum South was written by Langston Hughes!

[@brownlettuce1810]

John Lawson, Atlanta had more free blacks than any northern city. Northern states didn’t allow slavery or blacks.

[@officetechtyping]

This isn't the original script.

[@DJK-cq2uy]

Big deal

[@geraldphipps4167]

WHAT A MESS.....I simply could not get past the first 10 minutes

[@timothyypearson]

For me it was the first two mintues I couldn't get pass.

[@radeeking682]

This is preposterous for them to depict those times in such light. Smh

[@Mindswamp]

Worse than Song Of The South. A movie such as this one would not get past the drawing board these days. I half way expected to see at least one watermelon thief and a dice game during this one hour travesty.

[@jamy8575]

'Ma'assa Dill is going to jail"

[@tharatazahonewest2497]

This pisses me off !

[@sameryiapops5295]

Right

[@kennethyoung8908]

we can't change the pass but we can enjoy these days because opportunities we have work hard love life . because this is telling black people something stay woke

[@MountTheodore72]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIiWan6Fm8SZZpY This is what we need to know. Ain't been the progress we are accustomed to believing.

[@ellenhage3611]

You are not alone.

[@staceynelson1732]

Hell everyone knows it wasn't like this .

[@nuqwestr]

Bobby Breen, the youngster who stars in this film, who's parents were refugees from the Ukraine, and as Jews in the 1930s, also faced discrimination, as did the composer of the Academy Award nominated score, Victor Young. Both shape-shifted to conform to the Western European cultural mode.

[@thedevilsadvocate6619]

That was unnessesary.

[@toosiyabrandt8676]

HI The Negro Spirituals tell a different story! Truth be told. Shalom to you in Christ Yeshua.

[@zandramorgan440]

🤔🤔🤔

[@donna948]

LIES LIES LIES YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE WHAT I THINK ABOUT THIS💩

[@africandefender2967]

See what we did during segregation and it was beautiful

[@MountTheodore72]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIiWan6Fm8SZZpY This video let's us know we were better off being segregated. Integration only stunted our growth and derailed our need to be our own producers. We fell for the illusion of inclusion.