Spencer Williams Movies

Razz accidentally shoots his wife Martha when his hunting rifle drops on the floor and discharges. The church congregation gathers at Martha’s...

Genre: Music

Cast: Cathryn Caviness

A Harlem nightclub entertainer arrives on the Caribbean island of "Rinidad" to perform as the headliner in a revue at the Paradise Hotel. She quickly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Francine Everett

The owner of a juke joint arranges to frame an innocent preacher with a scandalous photograph, but his scheme backfires when his own adoptive mother...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Williams

A wandering cowboy and his sidekick try to resolve a murder.

Genre: Western

Cast: Herb Jeffries

Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spencer Williams

Daisy Mae Walker is an aspiring singer from a small town in Texas, who comes to New York City to pursue a show business career, but falls prey to a...

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Cast: Geraldine Brock

A cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like him. He...

Genre: Action

Cast: Herb Jeffries

Johnny Fraser leaves his mother in their small home town and sets out for the big city. He obtains a job with a large firm of architects. Steve...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Johnny Downs

Film by Spencer Williams.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Williams

Privacy Robson is a downtrodden husband who takes advice from his friend Florian Slappey. He eventually gets the upper hand after starting divorce...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward Thompson

A cowboy helps a pretty young woman find lost gold. Restored by the Academy Film Archive with additional funding from the National Endowment for the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Herb Jeffries

A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward Thompson

Bob Blake and his sidekick and four singing cowboys arrive at the Jackson ranch where Bob learns from Betty Jackson that her brother, Joe, is...

Genre: Western

Cast: Herb Jeffries

The history of the television version of "Amos and Andy" and the public outcry to cancel it.

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Cast: George Kirby

"Willie Dime," a big, bad taxi driver, is very jealous of "Miss Eva" and it burns him up to see any fool Jelly-bean "carrying on flirtatious...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Herbert Skinner

Spencer Williams' comedy feature.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spencer Williams

A musical short starring Sam McDaniel and Spencer Williams.

Genre: Music

Cast: Sam McDaniel

A newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about the young girl's father.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Zack Williams

Virtually unseen for more than eighty years, Spencer Williams’s first film is a one-reel comedy short in which a rivalry between two men is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spencer Williams

After losing their parents in a flood at a young age, two brothers grow up to become a police officer and a lawyer, working with a local newspaper...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Williams

The film is set in Memphis, Tennessee and focuses on a street sweeper who comes upon a large parcel of money. He uses the newly acquired wealth to go...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: July Jones

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ossie Davis

US Navy produced short stars Joel Fluellen as a draftee from his civilian job at a black newspaper through boot camp and an assignment in the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joel Fluellen

An uncle discusses the life of Martin de Porres with his niece. de Porres was a late sixteenth-century Peruvian who was elevated to sainthood in 1962...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Williams

Musical film with an all-black cast.

Genre: Music

Cast: Clarence Brooks