Alfred N. Sack - Turner Classic Movies

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Uncle Tomcat's House of Kittens (1967)

Hot Skin and Cold Cash (1965)

Juke Joint (1947)

Beale Street Mama (1946)

Dirty Gertie from Harlem, U.S.A. (1946)

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Blood Of Jesus, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Those Days Are Almost Gone

Blood Of Jesus, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Why Don't You Try To Pray?

Biography

Filmography

Producer (Feature Film)

Uncle Tomcat's House of Kittens (1967)

Hot Skin and Cold Cash (1965)

Juke Joint (1947)

Beale Street Mama (1946)

Dirty Gertie from Harlem, U.S.A. (1946)

Go Down, Death! (1944)

The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940)

Lying Lips (1939)

Underworld (1937)

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Blood Of Jesus, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Those Days Are Almost Gone With promotion of the producer Alfred N. Sack, and first-time writer and director Spencer Williams employing biblical language narrating over an African American baptism ceremony shot on location in rural Texas, the opening of the landmark “race” film, The Blood Of Jesus, 1941.

Blood Of Jesus, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Why Don't You Try To Pray? Martha Ann (Cathryn Caviness) on the afternoon of her baptism, speaks to her husband Ras (writer and director Spencer Williams) about his lack of interest in religion, concerned that he may have shot a neighbor’s game on his hunting trip, a key moment in the “race” film The Blood Of Jesus, 1941.

Blood Of Jesus, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Walk Clear Of Temptation Martha Ann (Cathryn Caviness), escorted from what may be her death bed by an angel (Rogenia Goldthwaite), is offered options, the first put forward by satan (James B. Jones) and his cohort Judas Green (Frank H. McClennan), in writer-director Spencer Williams' first feature, The Blood Of Jesus, 1941.

Dirty Gertie From Harlem, U.S.A. -- (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Joe's A Regular Guy After a festive welcome to the island of “Rinidad,” Gertie (Francine Everett) and entourage check into the hotel, greeted by Joe (Don Wilson), Pa and Ma (L.E. Lewis, Inez Newell) and in conversation with Stella (Kathrine Moore) we begin to learn why they’re come, in Spencer Williams’ Dirty Gertie From Harlem U.S.A., 1946.

Dirty Gertie From Harlem, U.S.A. (1946) -- (Movie Clip) She's A Painted Trollop Stella (Kathrine Moore) is confirming that the whole company had to leave Harlem for the islands because headliner Gertie (Francine Everett) mistreated her big-shot boyfriend, even as she begins to make trouble with Mr. Christian (Alfred Hawkins) and on-leave servicemen (Shelly Ross, Hugh Watson), in Dirty Gertie From Harlem U.S.A., 1946.

Dirty Gertie From Harlem, U.S.A. (1946) -- (Movie Clip) The Truth About My Future Exiled stripper Francine Everett (title character), in the Joan Crawford role from Rain, 1932, in this unauthorized re-vamp of the original Somerset Maugham story, decides to visit the island voodoo lady, surprisingly played by writer-director Spencer Williams, in Dirty Gertie From Harlem U.S.A., 1946.

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