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Title: an early gem from the dawn of sound
Review: King Vidor ("The Big Parade", "The Crowd", "Show People") was one of the first major Hollywood studio directors to feature an all-African-American cast in this visually striking film from M-G-M in 1929. Produced in the first full year of sound production, Vidor's film (like Rouben Mamoulian's "Applause" released the same year)manages to avoid the staginess and overcome many of the technical limitations inherent in the early talkies. Forget the stereotype-laden plotline: the lust for a city vamp (Nina Mae McKinney)leads a sharecropper-turned-preacher (Daniel L. Haynes) astray--this film gets 4 stars for its climactic sequence alone: a bravura expressionistic chase through a fog-shrouded swamp that is worthy of Murnau or Lang at their best--definitely worth a look!
