| Actors: Louis Jordan, Cab Calloway, Nina Mae McKinney, Milton Woods, Frank L. Wilson Director: Bud Pollard Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama, African American Cinema Sub-Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama, African American Cinema Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment Format: DVD - Black and White - Closed-captioned DVD Release Date: 01/01/2004 Original Release Date: 01/01/2004 Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/2004 Release Year: 2004 Run Time: 3hr 57min Screens: Black and White Number of Discs: 1 SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated) Languages: English |
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  | Race Movies Hi-De-Ho/The Devil's Daughter/Beware/Reet Petite and Gone Actors: Louis Jordan, Cab Calloway, Nina Mae McKinney, Milton Woods, Frank L. Wilson Director: Bud Pollard Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama, African American Cinema NR 2004 3hr 57min Four classic urban films: Hi-De-Ho, The Devil's Daughter, Beware, and Reet Petite and Gone. |
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Movie ReviewsGood collection of early Black films Andre M. | Mt. Pleasant, SC United States | 11/18/2006 (5 out of 5 stars) "This is a fine collection of early Black American films from the 1930s and 40s. It begins with Cab Calloway in "Hi De Ho" (1947), a story of Cab fighting gangsters and a sluttish "girlfriend" (Jeni Le Gon as Minnie the Moocher-who he regrettably slaps early on in the film-shades of "Purple Rain") to achieve musical success and love with the right woman. Domestic violence issues aside, it's quite entertaining. "The Devils Daughter" (ca. 1939) features the legendary Nina Mae McKinney in a rather hokey but amusing tale about voodoo in Haiti. "Beware" is one of the best of Jazz comedian Louis Jordan's musical comedies. An interesting tale of his efforts to save a Black college (this was some 40 years before Spike Lee's "School Daze") from a crooked president. Lots of good music and clowning with a good story. LJ strikes again in "Reet Petite and Gone," not one of his better films, but some really entertaining songs and antics from LJ and femme fatale Mabel Lee. See these films and dig what Black Cinema was like prior to Superfly, Sweetback, and Spike Lee."
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