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BODY AND SOUL

OSCAR MICHEAUX | 102 min | United States | 1925

Paul Robeson plays an escaped prisoner who takes refuge in the predominantly Black town of Tatesville, Georgia, where he poses as a reverend, and hatches a plan to swindle his new congregation of their last penny—that is, until he meets his long-lost twin (Robeson, again!) A full-blooded melodrama.


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