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Body and soul

Paul Robeson in his first screen role plays two parts, an evil preacher and his good brother, who wage a personal war for the body and soul of the heroine.

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  • "Oscar Micheaux's Body and soul"@en
  • "Paul Robeson: Outsider"
  • "Oscar Micheaux's Body and Soul"

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  • "Paul Robeson in his first screen role plays two parts, an evil preacher and his good brother, who wage a personal war for the body and soul of the heroine."
  • "Paul Robeson in his first screen role plays two parts, an evil preacher and his good brother, who wage a personal war for the body and soul of the heroine."@en
  • "In this early all black production Robeson plays a seemingly venal black preacher living a double life. The preacher shows up in a speakeasy full of criminals and cardsharpers, and then is seen attempting to dupe a pious mother into marrying off her daughter. Near the end of the film, both roles are revealed as shams. Robeson is shown to be a kind-hearted man who ultimately closes the speakeasy. A strong and masculine black image emerges, towering above the stereotypes prevalent in other films of the era."
  • "Paul Robeson in his first screen role, plays two parts, an evil preacher and his good brother, who wage a personal war for the body and soul of the heroine."
  • "Paul Robeson stars in this early silent film of a minister gone corrupt. He associates with the owner of a house of gambling, forces a girl to steal and later kills the girl's brother. But, when all is said and done it's only a dream."
  • "Paul Robeson in his first screen role, plays two parts, an evil preacher and his good brother, who wage a personal war for the body and soul of the heroine."@en
  • "An article about an escaped prisoner posing as a preacher causes a terrible nightmare for the readers."@en
  • "In the original version Robeson played a corrupt 'jackleg' preacher, an embodiment of evil who exploits his poor black parishioners, extorts money from a gambling house and seduces a girl of the parish. The censors forced major revisions. Robeson plays two separate roles, those of a virtuous man and a wicked one. The evil self is framed within a bad dream. The film may gain from this revision in its departure from the myths about the lives of blacks projected by Hollywood. This was a pioneering melodrama by a black filmmaker with an authentic basis in black life."@en
  • "A corrupt, conniving preacher preys on a mother's gullibility and her daughter's vulnerability, but it all turns out to be the mother's bad dream and a happy ending results, with the heroine marrying her true love. Paul Robeson plays both the preacher and the heroine's true love."
  • "Robeson in his first film plays a dual role as a corrupt preacher out to fleece his followers and take advantage of the young heroine and as the preacher's upstanding brother. Micheaux altered the film to satisfy censors' objections to the condemning portrait of the preacher, so that the tragic events instigated by the preacher turn out to be the "nightmare" imaginings of the heroine's mother, and a conventional happy ending results."
  • "This is the story of a minister gone corrupt. He associates with the owner of a house of gambling, he forces a girl to steal, he later kills the girl's brother. But, when all is said and done it's only a dream."@en

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  • "Feature films"
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Video recordings"@en
  • "Features"@en
  • "Black films and programs"@en
  • "Fiction films"
  • "Silent films"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Low budget films"
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  • "Race films"
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  • "Body and soul"
  • "Body and soul"@en
  • "Body & soul"
  • "Body and soul (Motion picture : 1925)"
  • "Body and soul (Motion picture : 1925)"@en

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