Harlem After Midnight (1934)
January 1, 1934
Release Date

Harlem After Midnight (1934)
January 1, 1934
Release Date
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Cast & Crew.

Lawrence Chenault

'Slick' Chester

A.B. DeComathiere

Bee Freeman

Rex Ingram

Cherokee Thornton

Sol Johnson
Actor

Oscar Micheaux
Writer / Director

Pearl McCormack
Actress

Carlton Moss
Actor
Details.
Release Date
January 1, 1934
Status
Released
Running Time
1h 16m
Content Rating
NR
Genres
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Harlem After Midnight (1934) is an American black-and-white silent film directed by author and director Oscar Micheaux. A drama film, it featured an "all-colored cast". As in most of the films created by Micheaux there is an all-black casting for the drama film. It is a lost film.
As this was a silent film the Bailey's Royal Theater accompanied it with music by Walter Barnes and his Royal Creolians. Many of the night club scenes were shot at the popular and most visited venues of this time where Micheaux hand-picked the leading cabaret singers in the film based on if they resembled the already set of the cast. The settings of each scene were chosen by the producers to add in hilarity to the drama-filled and tense toned film.
Harlem After Midnight is a film that focuses on gangsters, kidnapping and the drama that comes along with the streets of Harlem. Throughout the film there are hidden secrets that are directly related to the Negro gangsters and henchmen who all have an unsuspecting background in the nightclubs in the city of Harlem. The nightlife scenes in this film are described as an hilarious reflection of what the nightlife is actually like in Harlem and it plays a huge part in the theme of this film.