Monte Hawley Movies

An all-black horror comedy starring Mantan Moreland and sometimes partner (and straight man) F.E. Miller, Lucky Ghost is amusing low-brow fare that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mantan Moreland

Kenny Harrington, the star football player of Gilmore College, leads his team to many victories, raising hopes that Gilmore will play in the "Peach...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenny Washington

A female warden takes over at a state reform school and attempts to bring about needed changes. Restored in 2020 by the Academy Film Archive with...

Genre: Action

Cast: Louise Beavers

A theatrical producer puts aside his own success to boost the career of a talented singer.

Genre: Music

Cast: Ralph Cooper

A crooked real estate tycoon tricks a trusting young woman out of her small candy store. When he is found dead, the girl is suspected of the crime.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sheila Guyse

Mantan takes a job as office boy at a new TV station and gets to watch several pre-recorded musical numbers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mantan Moreland

While serving time in county prison, Wallingford sees a story in the newspaper that his cellmate, Schenectady, has inherited a mansion from his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mantan Moreland

Tommy McCoy and "Dude" Markey are both in love with Harlem singer/dancer Nita. Markey robs a jewelry store and turns the loot over to gang-boss...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Monte Hawley

In and around some great blues, swing and jazz music, a very unpopular band-leader. Prince Ellis, is killed in a Harlem nightclub, and, in and around...

Genre: Music

Cast: Monte Hawley

A well-meaning doctor lends his building to a group of neighborhood kids. When the neighbors learn that the kids are members of a tough Harlem gang,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Monte Hawley

Two mobs fight for control of the jukebox racket.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ralph Cooper

Helen Fielding, heir to the fortunes of the late millionaire Roger Fielding, Sr., has broken off her relationship with the unscrupulous Lew Covey to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Niel Webster

Pigmeat's Laugh Hepcats

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham

Mr. Smith Goes Ghost

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham

The husband of Sally Weston dies, and she decides to move to New York City where she feels her two young sons, Bob and Henry, can get a better...

Genre: Action

Cast: Louise Beavers

A straight man comes over to three comedians and tells them how the only way to handle a woman is to treat her rough and make her like it.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham

Mantan Moreland's comedy feature.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mantan Moreland

An undercover police woman poses as a nighclub entertainer to catch the main man behind the racketeers going on around Harlem. Meanwhile two men are...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Nina Mae McKinney

A famous bandleader, suffering from overwork and exhaustion, goes to a sanitarium for a rest. While there he dreams of being out west at a dude...

Genre: Music

Cast: Louis Jordan

A young black doctor sets out to establish a free clinic in Harlem.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ralph Cooper

A Son of Satan is a 1924 silent race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux. The film follows the misadventures of a man...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Andrew S. Bishop

Professional gambler The Duke (Dots Johnson) attempts to cheat Handsome Harry Hansom (Monte Hawley), who owns a successful Harlem nightclub, out of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Mantan Moreland