Blood Of Jesus, The (1941) - (Movie Clip) Walk Clear Of Temptation

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.