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Murder in Harlem
The wrong man, and the lawyer who won't quit.
When a Black night watchman is charged with the murder of a young white woman found in a factory basement, a novelist-turned-lawyer takes his case and pieces together what really happened. Loosely based on the Leo Frank case.
Directed by Oscar Micheaux · Starring Clarence Brooks · Dorothy Van Engle · Andrew S. Bishop · Alec Lovejoy
Content note: Depicts a murder and a Black man falsely accused of killing a white woman; period comic stereotypes.
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