The Virgin of the Seminole
1922 film
- 1922 (1922)
English intertitles
The Virgin of the Seminole (sometimes listed as The Virgin of Seminole) is a 1922 race film directed, written and produced by Oscar Micheaux.
Plot
The film focused on a young black man who joins the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and becomes a hero by rescuing a captive mixed-race woman from a hostile American Indian tribe.[1] The young man later purchases a ranch that becomes the foundation for great financial wealth.[2]
Cast
- William Fountaine
- Shingzie Howard[3]
Production background and preservation status
The film had its premiere in Chicago in December 1922 and was distributed by the filmmaker’s Micheaux Film Corporation. No print is known to exist, and it is considered to be a lost film.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Peterson, Bernard L., Early Black American Playwrights and Dramatic Writers, Greenwood Press, 1990, p. 137.
- ^ "Reclaiming the Frontier: Oscar Micheaux as Black Turnerian", African American Review, September 22, 2002.
- ^ Moon, Spencer; Allen, Linda (1997). Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers. ISBN 9780313298301.
- ^ The Virgin of Seminole at SilentEra.
External links
- The Virgin of the Seminole at IMDb
- The Virgin of Seminole at SilentEra
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Films directed by Oscar Micheaux
- The Homesteader (1919)
- Within Our Gates (1920)
- The Brute (1920)
- The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)
- The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921)
- The Dungeon (1922)
- The Hypocrite (1922)
- Uncle Jasper's Will (1922)
- The Virgin of the Seminole (1922)
- Deceit (1923)
- Birthright (1924)
- A Son of Satan (1924)
- Body and Soul (1925)
- Marcus Garland (1925)
- The Conjure Woman (1926)
- The Devil's Disciple (1926)
- The Spider's Web (1926)
- The Millionaire (1927)
- The Broken Violin (1928)
- The House Behind the Cedars (1927)
- Thirty Years Later (1928)
- When Men Betray (1929)
- The Wages of Sin (1929)
- Easy Street (1930)
- A Daughter of the Congo (1930)
- Darktown Revue (1931)
- The Exile (1931)
- Veiled Aristocrats (1932)
- Ten Minutes to Live (1932)
- Black Magic (1932)
- The Girl from Chicago (1932)
- Phantom of Kenwood (1933)
- Harlem After Midnight (1934)
- Murder in Harlem (1935)
- Temptation (1936)
- Underworld (1937)
- God's Step Children (1938)
- Swing! (1938)
- Lying Lips (1939)
- Birthright (1939)
- The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940)
- The Betrayal (1948)
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