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Title: Harlem Rides the Range (1939)
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| Herb Jeffries | ... | Bob Blake (as Herbert Jeffrey) | |
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Lucius Brooks | ... | Dusty |
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F.E. Miller | ... | Slim Perkins |
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Artie Young | ... | Miss Dennison |
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Clarence Brooks | ... | Bradley |
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Spencer Williams | ... | Watson (as Spencer Williams Jr.) |
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Tom Southern | ... | Connors |
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Leonard Christmas | ... | Dennison |
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Wade Dumas | ... | Sheriff |
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John Thomas | ... | Cactus |
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The Four Tones | ... | Singing Group |
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The Four Blackbirds | ... | Singing Quartet |
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Bradley is after Dennison's radium mine and it appears that his henchman Conners has killed him. When Blake arrives at Dennison's, Bradley and Conners arrive at the same time. When Blake leaves he drops a glove. Bradley kills Conners and uses the glove to frame Blake. Learning of Bradley's plan to kill Dennison's daughter, Blake escapes jail and sets out to reach her first. Written by Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
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radium mine | wrongful arrest | all black cast | murder | missing corpse |Taglines:
Men Of Action Blaze A Trail Of Love And Lead As Law And Order Comes To The Old West!Genres:
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USALanguage:
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1 February 1939 (USA) See more »Filming Locations:
Sindewinder Vallley, Apple Valley, Californa, USACompany Credits
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1.37 : 1
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Sung over the credits and by Herb Jeffries and The Four Tones
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This film was first shown on television Friday 1 December 1939 on New York City's pioneer, and still experimental television station W2XBS. See more »Soundtracks
I'm a Happy CowboySung over the credits and by Herb Jeffries and The Four Tones
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Routine '30s oater, notable only for having an all-black cast at a time when that was rare. The story is one you've seen a dozen times if you've watched enough B westerns from the period. Cowboys Herb Jeffries and Lucius Brooks stumble into a situation where a rancher is fighting to keep his ranch from being taken away from him by villains after radium or something. They decide to help the rancher, spurred on in no small part by the rancher's daughter one of them falls in love with. It's all very simple but not a bad way to pass an hour. There are a couple of songs, which are enjoyable in their corniness. The stunts are unimpressive and the acting fairly one-note. I will say that it is interesting to see black actors at the time being allowed to act 'normal,' rather than as put-on stereotypes like Willie Best or Mantan Moreland. The closest thing we get to that sort of thing here is Lucius Brooks' comic relief sidekick, but even that is restrained compared to what you would see in a mainstream film at the time.