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Murder In Harlem is a american film of genre Drama directed by Oscar Micheaux released in USA on 12 december 1935 with Alice Burton Russell
Murder In Harlem (1935)
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Add to a movie listMurder in Harlem (also released as Lem Hawkins Confession) is a 1935 American race film written, produced and directed by Oscar Micheaux, who also appears in the film. He remade his 1921 silent film The Gunsaulus Mystery.
Basing the works on the 1913 trial of Leo Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan, Micheaux used the detective genre to introduce different voices and conflicting accounts by his characters.
Synopsis
An African-American man is framed of the murder of a white woman, but a white man is found to be responsible.Actors
Alice Burton Russell
(Mrs. Vance)
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