''Uncle Jasper's Will'' (also released as ''Jasper Landry's Will'') is a 1922

race film The race film or race movie was a genre of film produced in the United States between about 1915 and the early 1950s, consisting of films produced for black audiences, and featuring black casts. Approximately five hundred race films were produce ...

directed, produced and written by

Oscar Micheaux Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (; January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled ...

. The film is a drama about the contents of a last will and testament left behind by an

African-American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American ...

sharecropper who was lynched after being falsely accused of the murder of a white plantation owner. The film was intended as a sequel to Micheaux’s landmark feature ''

Within Our Gates ''Within Our Gates'' is a 1920 American silent film by the director Oscar Micheaux that portrays the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century, the years of Jim Crow, the revival of the Ku Klux Kla ...

'' (1920).Spencer Moon
''Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers''
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997, p. 249.

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William Fountaine William Fountaine (August 15, 1897 – December 6, 1945) was a film actor in the United States. He starred in Oscar Micheaux's 1922 film '' Uncle Jasper's Will'', '' The Dungeon'' released the same year, and ''Deceit'' in 1923. He had a leading rol ...

Shingzie Howard Elcors "Shingzie" Howard was an actress in the U.S. She appeared in several Oscar Michaux films. She also worked for the Colored Players Film Corporation. After she married she became known as Shingzie Howard McClane. She retired from filmmakin ...

*Alma Sewell *

Harry Henderson (actor) Harry Henderson was an actor in theater and films in the United States. He made four films with the Colored Players Film Corporation. He was also cast in several Oscar Micheaux films and had a starring role in the film melodrama ''The Scar of Shame' ...

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* 1922 films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Films directed by Oscar Micheaux Lost American films Race films 1922 drama films Silent American drama films 1922 lost films Lost drama films 1920s American films {{1920s-silent-drama-film-stub

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