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The Exile is a 1931 American pre-Code film directed by Oscar Micheaux with choreography by Leonard Harper. A drama-romance of the race film genre, The Exile was Micheaux's first feature-length sound film, and the first African-American sound film.
The Exile: Directed by Oscar Micheaux. With Eunice Brooks, Stanley Morrell, Celeste Cole, Kathleen Noisette. A young man named Jean in post-World War I Chicago falls in love with a beautiful girl named Edith.
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- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Oscar Micheaux
- 1931-05-16
THE EXILE is a race film that was directed, written, and produced by Oscar Micheaux. The film was Micheaux's first feature-length sound film and the first fe...
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A young man named Jean in post-World War I Chicago falls in love with a beautiful girl named Edith. He proposes to her, but realizes that she's involved in the rackets and won't leave them, so he goes back home to South Dakota, where he becomes a successful rancher.
The Exile is a 1931 American film by Oscar Micheaux with the co-direction of the Dances and Ensemble by Leonard Harper. A drama–romance of the race film genre, it was Micheaux's first feature-length talkie, and the first African American talkie.
- Oscar Micheaux
The first black-cast feature film with sound, The Exile (1931), was based on Micheaux’s 1913 autobiographical novel, The Conquest. It tells the story of a young African American man who migrates from Chicago to South Dakota and falls in love with a woman on the other side of the color line.
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A disenchanted man heads West in search of true romance. An all-black musical from film pioneer Oscar Micheaux.
