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LYING LIPS – 1939 – CARMAN NEWSOME – RARE DVD
Directed by Oscar Micheaux
with Edna Mae Harris … Elsie Bellwood Carman Newsome … Benjamin Hadnot Robert Earl Jones … Detective Wenzer Frances E. Williams … Elizabeth Green Cherokee Thornton … John Landry Slim Thompson … Clyde Landry Gladys Williams … Aunt Josephine Juano Hernandez … Rev. Bryson Henry ‘Gang’ Gines … Ned Green Don De Leo … Farina, a club owner Charles La Torre … Garotti, a club owner Robert Paquin … District Attorney Eckert George Reynolds … Lt. of Police Amanda Randolph … Matron Teddy Hall … Young Boy
One of the rare Oscar Micheaux productions. A nightclub singer refuses to “date” customers, so she’s framed for the murder of her aunt, convicted of the killing and sent to prison. However, her friend, who is a police detective, doesn’t believe she did it and sets out to prove her innocence.
