Rent The Paul Robeson: Collection (1937)
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6h 50min
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Actor, athlete, singer and civil rights activist, Paul Robeson was a true polymath Renaissance Man who could sing and speak in more than twenty languages. A huge role model for African Americans during the twenties and thirties, he is best known in cinematic circles for the films he made in Britain in the 1930's which showcase his fine singing voice.
Body and Soul (1925)
A dissolute, venal black preacher shows up in a seedy speakeasy full of criminals and cardsharps, then appears to be trying to dupe a pious mother into marrying off her daughter.
Sanders of the River (1935)Sanders has established peace in the river district of West Africa where he is a British Resident Commissioner. His probationary chief, Bosambo, uses Sanders' orders to free a slave convoy.
Song of Freedom (1936)
A successful British concert singer discovers he is descended from a West African queen whose tribe is now leaderless. He goes to Africa where he is met with hostility - can he win their hearts and minds?
Big Fella (1937)
A Marseille dock worker befriends a small boy who has lost his parents after arriving on an ocean liner. Can he reunite the young lad with his parents?
King Solomon's Mines (1937)
Fortune hunter Patrick O'Brien is on a trek across the desert in hope of finding the fabled diamond mines of Solomon. His daughter persuades hunter Allan Quartermain to lead a party to rescue him.- Actors:
- Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Esme Percy, Robert Adams, James Solomon, Tony Wane, Ronald Simpson, George Mozart, Jenny Dean, Joan Fred Emney, Bernard Ansell, Johnnie Schofield, Ambrose Manning, Arthur Elliott, Cornelia Smith, Sydney Benson, Cathleen Cavanagh, Alf Goddard, Will Hammer, Arthur Williams
- Directors:
- Zoltan Korda, J. Elder Wills, Robert Stevenson, Geoffrey Barkas, Alfred Hitchcock, Oscar Micheaux
- Producers:
- Henry Passmore, J. Elder Wills, Will Hammer, Alexander Korda, Oscar Micheaux
- Writers:
- H. Rider Haggard, Michael Hogan, Roland Pertwee, Charles Bennett, A.R. Rawlinson, Ralph Spence, Ingram D'Abbes, Claude McKay, Fenn Sherie, Claude Wallace, Dorothy Holloway, Michael Barringer, Philip Lindsay, Lajos Biró, Jeffrey Dell, Edgar Wallace, Arthur Wimperis, Oscar Micheaux
- Aka:
- Body and Soul / Sanders of the River / Song of Freedom / Big Fella / King Solomon's Mines
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Music & Musicals, Romance, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Children & Family, Children's Books On Screen: Best Adventure Films
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stars for Robeson but the films are offensive - The Paul Robeson: Collection review by EA
Paul Robeson is an incredible presence in these films-the camera loves him- and his singing ability is divine. But I felt so sorry he had such poor material to work with.The films in this series are very offensive, and caricature Africans as primitive, cruel, childlike savages, especially the chiefs.
This cariacture, of course, bolstered British colonial fantasies. The only advice I have is to regard the films as historical artefacts and be amazed by Robeson' s talent.
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