''The Devil's Daughter'', also known as ''Pocomania'', is a 1939 American film directed by Arthur H. Leonard.

Plot summary

The movie is set in Jamaica and begins with a group performing a song and then a

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. Sylvia Walton ( Ida James) of Harlem inherits a Jamaican banana plantation and returns to manage it. Her disinherited half-sister Isabelle (

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), who ran the plantation until their father's death, does not greet her. But Sylvia, her two rival suitors, and her comic-relief servant Percy are disturbed by the constant, growing sound of drums. Nina Mae McKinney can be heard singing an excerpt of ''The Devil’s Daughter'' soundtrack on the album ''Jamaica Folk Trance Possession 1939-1961''.See the ''Jamaica Folk Trance Possession 1939-1961'' album
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Cast

as Isabelle Walton *

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as Philip Ramsay * Ida James as Sylvia Walton *

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as Percy Jackson * Willa Mae Lang as Elvira * Emmett 'Babe' Wallace as John Lowden *

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as Island girl

References

External links

* * 1939 films 1930s English-language films American black-and-white films 1930s romance films 1939 horror films Films shot in Jamaica Race films American romantic horror films Cockfighting in film 1930s American films English-language horror films English-language romance films {{1930s-horror-film-stub