MOON OVER HARLEM (1939) Buddy Harris, Cora Green, Izinetta Wilcox | Crime, Drama, Black Cinema | B&W

Moon Over Harlem is a 1939 American race film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.

SYNOPSIS
A gangster, Dollar Bill Richards, seduces a wealthy widow, Minnie, to get his hands on her money.

Musical numbers highlight this story of a wealthy widow who disowns her daughter after a new man enters her life.

CAST & CREW
Bud Harris as Dollar Bill
Cora Green as Minnie
Izinetta Wilcox as Sue
Earl Gough as Bob
Zerita Stepteau as Jackie
Petrina Moore as Alice
Daphne Fray as Pat
Mercedes Gilbert as Jackie's mother
Frances Harrod as Maud
Alec Lovejoy as Fats
Walter Richardson as Brother Hornsby
Slim Thompson as Long-Boy
Freddie Robinson as Half-Pint
John Bunn as Wallstreet
Marieluise Bechet as Nina Mae Brown
Archie Cross as A Boy from Newark
William Woodward as A Boy from Newark
John Fortune as Jamaica
Audrey Talbird as Connie
Marie Young as Jean
Christopher Columbus and His Swing Crew as Themselves
Sidney Bechet as himself - Clarinetist

Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
Written by Mathew Mathews (story), Shirley Ulmer (screenplay), Mathew Mathews (dialogue)
Produced by Edgar G. Ulmer
Cinematography J. Burgi Contner, Edward Hyland
Edited by Jack Kemp
Music by Donald Heywood
Distributed by Sack Amusements
Release date October 31, 1939
Running time 69 minutes
Country United States
Language English