Thirty Years Later

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Thirty Years Later
Directed by Oscar Micheaux
Produced byOscar Micheaux
StarringWilliam Edmonson
Mabel Kelly
A.B. DeComathiere
Ardelle Dabney
Gertrude Snelson
Production
company
Micheaux Films
Release date
  • 28 February 1928 (1928-02-28)
(USA)
CountryUSA
LanguageNone

Thirty Years Later, is a 1928 American black and white silent drama film directed and produced by Oscar Micheaux for Micheaux Films. [1] [2] Thirty Years Later film was based on Henry Francis Downing' The Racial Tangle. [3] The film stars William Edmonson and Mabel Kelly in the lead roles, whereas A.B. DeComathiere, Ardelle Dabney and Gertrude Snelson made supportive roles. [4] [5] The film revolves on the love affair between George Eldridge Van Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, and Hester Morgan, a black girl. [6]

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The film is presumed lost without any evidence of reels. [7]

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