Uncle Jasper's Will
| Uncle Jasper's Will | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Oscar Micheaux |
| Written by | Oscar Micheaux |
| Produced by | Oscar Micheaux |
Release date |
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| Country | USA |
| Language | English (silent) |
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
[edit]- William Fountaine
- Shingzie Howard
- Alma Sewell
- Harry Henderson (actor)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Spencer Moon, Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997, p. 249.
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