''Two Gun Man from Harlem'' is a 1938 American
contemporary Western film directed by
Richard C. Kahn.
It was produced by Merit Pictures, distributed by Sack Amusement Enterprises and featured an all-African-American cast.
Plot summary
A man wrongly accused of murder disguises himself as a Harlem gangster known as "the Deacon", in order to bring to justice the men who framed him. He succeeds and reveals himself to the girl who loves him, and they go off to live happily ever after. There are many cleverly comic interludes in the story.
Cast
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Herbert Jeffrey as Bob Blake/The Deacon
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Margaret Whitten as Sally Thompson
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Clarence Brooks as John Barker
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Mantan Moreland
Mantan Moreland (September 3, 1902 – September 28, 1973) was an American actor and comedian most popular in the 1930s and 1940s. He starred in numerous films. His daughter Marcella Moreland appeared as a child actress in several films.
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as Bill Blake
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Stymie Beard as Jimmy Thompson
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Spencer Williams, Jr. as Butch Carter
* Mae Turner as Mrs. Ruth Steel
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Jesse Lee Brooks
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as Sheriff
* Rose Lee Lincoln as Dolores
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Tom Southern as John Steel
* The Cats and the Fiddle as Specialty Act
* The Four Tones as Singing Group
* Paul Blackman as Paul Blackman
Soundtrack
* Herb Jeffries and The Four Tones - "I'm a Happy Cowboy"
* The score - "
Die Walküre
(; ''The Valkyrie''), WWV 86B, is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (English: ''The Ring of the Nibelung''). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on ...
" (Written by
Richard Wagner)
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1938 films
American black-and-white films
1938 Western (genre) films
African-American Western (genre) films
Films directed by Richard C. Kahn
1930s English-language films
1930s American films
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