Uncle Jasper's Will
1922 film by Oscar Micheaux
- 1922 (1922)
Uncle Jasper's Will (also released as Jasper Landry's Will) is a 1922 race film directed, produced and written by Oscar Micheaux. The film is a drama about the contents of a last will and testament left behind by an African-American sharecropper who was lynched after being falsely accused of the murder of a white plantation owner. The film was intended as a sequel to Micheaux’s landmark feature Within Our Gates (1920).[1]
Cast
- William Fountaine
- Shingzie Howard
- Alma Sewell
- Harry Henderson (actor)
See also
References
- ^ Spencer Moon, Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997, p. 249.
External links
- Uncle Jasper's Will at IMDb
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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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