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Juke Joint is a american film of genre Drama directed by Spencer Williams released in USA on 1 january 1947 with Spencer Williams

Juke Joint (1947)

Juke Joint
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Released in USA 1 january 1947
Length 1h9
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy
Rating57% 2.8677252.8677252.8677252.8677252.867725

Juke Joint is a 1947 race film directed by and starring Spencer Williams and produced and released by Sack Amusement Enterprises.

Synopsis

Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five cents between them. Johnson is constantly exasperated at Jones’ deficient perspicacity, and at one point he comments Jones is so dense that he probably thinks "Veronica Lake is some kind of summer resort." The duo arrange to become boarders at the home of Louella "Mama Lou" Holiday, who is fooled into believing Johnson is an acting teacher named Whitney Vanderbilt; Jones takes the alias of Cornbread Green. Mrs. Holiday agrees to give the men free room and board if they will provide poise lessons to her daughter, an aspiring beauty queen named Honey Dew. The lessons pay off and Honey Dew wins the beauty contest, but problems arise when Mrs. Holiday’s husband, Papa Sam, decides to hold a party for the new beauty queen at a disreputable juke joint.

Actors

Spencer Williams

(Bad News Johnson / Vanderbilt Whitney)
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