Moon Over Harlem (1939) | Black Gangster Film [CC]
Channel: Screen Prism
Date: 2024-03-02

MOON OVER HARLEM is an American race film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Happy (Late) Black History Month!

Kind-hearted widow Minnie is marrying a womanizing racketeer known as Dollar Bill, and her beautiful daughter Sue is heart-broken. When Bill tries to seduce the young girl right under Minnie's nose, the love-struck mother wrongly blames her daughter. Feeling betrayed and abandoned, Sue runs into the arms of her boyfriend, Bob, who happens to be organizing the Harlem neighborhood to fight Dollar Bill's extortionist gang. Minnie's naive belief in her new husband's basic goodness leads to tragedy.

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