Midnight Menace (1946 film)

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Midnight Menace
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Directed by Josh Binney
Produced by All-American News
Al Sack
Music by Fats Waller
Andy Razaf
Release date
  • 1946 (1946)

Midnight Menace is a 1946 American short musical film directed by Josh Binney. It was produced by All-American News and Al Sack. The plot involves a Voodoo practitioner making dead bodies appear around Lollypop Jones. The film features songs by Fats Waller and Andy Razaf. [1] An alternative description of the plot says the film is about a Voodoo practitioner hypnotizing a man's wife and using her in his stage show. [2]

Contents

The film was advertised as having an "All Colored Cast". Jones also starred in Chicago After Dark and Lucky Gamblers . [3]

Cast

Songs

References

  1. ↑ Webb, Graham (July 10, 2020). Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959. McFarland. ISBN   9781476639260 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Weisenfeld, Judith (June 8, 2007). Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929–1949. University of California Press. ISBN   9780520940666 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Pitts, Michael R. (19 April 2019). Astor Pictures: A Filmography and History of the Reissue King, 1933-1965. McFarland. ISBN   9781476636283.
  4. ↑ Richards, Larry (September 17, 2015). African American Films Through 1959: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography. McFarland. ISBN   9781476610528 – via Google Books.
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