Moon Over Harlem (1939)
69 min
Hardworking Minnie (Cora Green) marries "Dollar" Bill (Bud Harris) a shady gambler after her money and her attractive daughter, Sue (Izanetta Wilcois). Sue meanwhile, is in love with Bob (Carl Hough), an idealist fond of looking out over the skyline and saying "Harlem... there's so much to be done here--it's fairly screaming for leadership." When Bob decides to organize the community against local racketeers he little realizes would-be father-in-law Dollar Bill is one of them. Bill meanwhile has problems of his own: A vicious white mob from lower Manhattan is muscling in on his action, and bullets are about to fly.
- Release date
- May 12, 1939
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Buddy Harris as Dollar Bill
- Cora Green as Minnie
- Izinetta Wilcox as Sue
- Earl Gough as Bob
- Zerita Steptean as Jackie
- Petrina Moore as Alice
- Daphne Fray as Pat
- Mercedes Gilbert as Jackie's mother
- Frances Harrod as Maud
- Alec Lovejoy as Fats
Crew
- Edgar G. Ulmer · Director
- Mathew Mathews · Writer
- Shirley Ulmer · Writer
- Edgar G. Ulmer · Producer
- Donald Heywood · Composer
- J. Burgi Contner · Cinematographer
- Edward Hyland · Cinematographer
- Jack Kemp · Editor