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RELEASED: 1936
Starring: Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Esme Percy
Set in the deep south of Confederate America, a plantation slave was gifted with a great talent. His magnificent voice enabled him to escape his life of bondage as he became a hugely successful singer in the North. Now a man of independent wealth he returns to his native Africa where his people are enslaved under a similar yoke, that of the omnipotent force of the witch doctors. His is a mission to liberate them from the stranglehold of their oppressors enabling them to enjoy equality and liberty…the rights of all men.
