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Go Down Death (1944) [N/A]

Featuring:
Myra D. Hemmings, Samuel H. James, Eddye L. Houston

Written by:
Sam Elljay
Jean Roddy
James Weldon Johnson

Directed by:
Spencer Williams


Release Date:
January 1, 1944

Original Title:
Go Down, Death!

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Harlemwood Studios

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 56

Overview from TheMovieDB

The owner of a juke joint arranges to frame an innocent preacher with a scandalous photograph, but his scheme backfires when his own adoptive mother interferes.

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Overview from Open Movies

A bar owner attempts to discredit the new preacher with whom he is feuding by framing him with a photograph showing him drinking with women with bad reputations. The bar owner's adoptive mother, a member of the minister's church, supports the preacher and gets the photographic prints. When the bar owner struggles with his mother for the prints, he accidentally kills her. After the preacher's funeral sermon, the bar owner's conscience drives him to his death.

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Rankings and Honors

Go Down Death (1944) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 4.9/10

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Production

Author:
James Weldon Johnson

Director:
Spencer Williams

Director of Photography:
H.W. Kier

Editor:
L.J. Powell

Writer:
Sam Elljay

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