Midnight Shadow
{{Infobox film
| name = Midnight Shadow
| image = Midnight Shadow.jpg
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| caption =
| director = George Randol
| producer = George Randol
Alfred N. Sack
| writer =
| screenplay = Arthur Reed
| story =
| based_on =
| narrator =
| starring = Frances Redd
Ollie Ann Robinson
Clinton Rosemond
Laurence Criner
| music = Johnny Lange
Lew Porter
| cinematography = Arthur Reed
| editing = Robert Jahns
| studio = George Randol Productions
| distributor = Sack Amusement Enterprises
| released = {{Film date|1939}}
| runtime = 54 min
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
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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.
Plot
Cast
- Frances Redd as Margaret Wilson
- Buck Woods as Lightfoot
- Richard Bates as Jr. Lingley
- Clinton Rosemond as Mr. Dan Wilson
- Jesse Lee Brooks as Sergeant Ramsey
- Edward Brandon as Buster Barnett
- Ollie Ann Robinson as Mrs. Emma Wilson
- Laurence Criner (billed as John Criner) as Prince Alihabad
- Pete Webster (actor) as John Mason
- Ruby Dandridge as Mrs. Lingley
- Napoleon Simpson as Mr. Ernest Lingley
Book coverage
The film was briefly discussed in terms of plot and as an African American production in the books Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949{{cite book | last = Weisenfeld | first = Judith | title = Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949 | publisher = University of California Press| date = January 8, 2007 | isbn = 9780520940666 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=B-NAR_zWZoIC&q=midnight+shadow+1939&pg=PA286 | accessdate = November 26, 2011}} and Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African American Life.{{cite book | last = Christian Suggs | first = Jon | title = Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African American Life | publisher = University of Michigan Press | date = February 15, 2000 | isbn = 0472022822 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_FOCBjE0JsgC&q=midnight+shadow+1939+film&pg=PA213 | accessdate = November 26, 2011}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031648/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sml Full Cast and Crew: Midnight Shadow (1939)], IMdB
- {{TCMDb title|id=319749}}
- {{AFI film|id=2243|title=Midnight Shadow}}
- [http://cdm.sos.mo.gov/cdm/singleitem/collection/aanemo/id/157/rec/1 "Ruth Lankford Redd Accompanies the Negro Community Chorus of Columbia, Missouri"], undated photograph from Columbia, MO includes John Roland Redd's sisters Ruth Lankford Redd (accompanist) and Frances Elizabeth Redd, Collection: African Americans in Northeast Missouri, Hannibal Free Library
Category:American mystery films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:English-language mystery films
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