Go down, death!: Spencer Williams, Myra D. Hemmings, Samuel H. James. Sunday sinners: Edna Mae Harris, Mamie Smith, Earl Sydnor, Alex Lovejoy. Cataloged from screen, disc surface and container. Go down, death! based on a poem by James Weldon Johnson. Go down, death! was originally produced as a motion picture in 1944; Sunday sinners was originally produced as a motion picture in 1940. "Harlem double feature"
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Go down, death! / Alfred N. Sack presents ; a Harlemwood Studios production ; screen play, Sam Elljay ; directed by Spencer Williams (1944, 56 min.) -- Sunday sinners / Colonnade Pictures Corporation ; original story, Frank Wilson ; screen adaptation, Vincent Valentini ; directed by Arthur Dreifuss (1940, 65 min.).
Summary:
Go down, death!: A bar owner attempts to discredit a popular local preacher by obtaining some very compromising pictures of the young minister. Sunday sinners: Gangsters frame a minister's son for robbery and murder but the congregation of his father's church help prove his innocence.
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