Rev. Isaiah T. Jenkins/His brother Sylvester
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Body and Soul (1925) An escaped prisoner seeks refuge in the predominantly African-American town of Tatesville, Georgia, by passing himself off as the Rt. Reverend Isaiah T. Jenkins.
Body and Soul: Directed by Oscar Micheaux. With Paul Robeson, Marshall Rogers, Lawrence Chenault, Chester A. Alexander. A malevolent phony preacher plots to take advantage of a woman from his congregation who happens to be in love with his long-estranged identical twin brother.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Oscar Micheaux
- 1925-11-09
Body and Soul, directed by the legendary African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, is a direct critique of the power of the cloth, casting Robeson in dual roles as a jackleg preacher and a well-meaning inventor.
- Reverend Jenkins/Sylvester
A bold and controversial film by pioneer independent filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, Body And Soul (1925) marked Paul Robeson’s screen debut and was the only motion picture he made with an African-American director.
Oct 19, 2020 · Body and Soul (1925), written, directed and produced by one of the most prolific filmmakers of early American cinema, Oscar Micheaux, is one of the few preserved films from the genre of ‘race movies’ made for Black audiences in the first half of the 20 th century.
Body and Soul (1925), the best-known silent film of pioneer black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, offered Paul Robeson, the great singer/actor/athlete, his first opportunity in films.
One of the revelations of this 1924 feature by pioneer black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux is that, in contrast to the faltering technique and garbled film syntax of his sound pictures, he was ...
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