Midnight Shadow

Midnight Shadow
Midnight Shadow
Directed by	George Randol
Screenplay by	Arthur Reed
Produced by	George Randol; Alfred N. Sack
Starring	; ; Clinton Rosemond; Laurence Criner
Cinematography	Arthur Reed
Edited by	Robert Jahns
Music by	Johnny Lange; Lew Porter
Production; company	George Randol Productions
Distributed by	Sack Amusement Enterprises
Release date	1939
Running time	54 min
Country	United States
Language	English

Midnight Shadow is a 1939 film with an all African-American cast. It was directed and produced by George Randol, who was also African American.

Plot[]

The mind-reading Prince Alihabad courts a girl from Oklahoma played by Frances E. Redd. Her parents want to make her happy, but they do not like that Alihabad worships Allah. A killer is on the loose and locals fear that it might be Alihabad.

Cast[]

as Margaret Wilson
as Lightfoot
Richard Bates as Jr. Lingley
Clinton Rosemond as Mr. Dan Wilson
Jesse Lee Brooks as Sergeant Ramsey
as Buster Barnett
as Mrs. Emma Wilson
Laurence Criner (billed as John Criner) as Prince Alihabad
as John Mason
Ruby Dandridge as Mrs. Lingley
Napoleon Simpson as Mr. Ernest Lingley

Book coverage[]

The film was briefly discussed in terms of plot and as an African American production in the books Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949^[1] and Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African American Life.^[2]

References[]

^ Weisenfeld, Judith (January 8, 2007). Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520940666. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
^ Christian Suggs, Jon (February 15, 2000). Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African American Life. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0472022822. Retrieved November 26, 2011.

External links[]

Full Cast and Crew: Midnight Shadow (1939), IMdB
Midnight Shadow at AllMovie
Midnight Shadow at the TCM Movie Database
Midnight Shadow at the American Film Institute Catalog
"Ruth Lankford Redd Accompanies the Negro Community Chorus of Columbia, Missouri", undated photograph from Columbia, MO includes John Roland Redd's sisters Ruth Lankford Redd (accompanist) and Frances Elizabeth Redd, Collection: African Americans in Northeast Missouri, Hannibal Free Library

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[1] Weisenfeld, Judith (January 8, 2007). Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520940666. Retrieved November 26, 2011.

[2] Christian Suggs, Jon (February 15, 2000). Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African American Life. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0472022822. Retrieved November 26, 2011.

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