Murder on Lenox Avenue (1941)
The rackets exposed!
65 min
Dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business League to replace their ousted, crooked leader Marshall...who wants revenge; and Pa's ward Jim Bracton, a two-timing Romeo whose affairs are coming to a crisis. And hanging around is Marshall's murderous junkie henchman, Lomax. Will it all end in someone's being killed?
- Release date
- January 1, 1941
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Mamie Smith as Hattie
- Alec Lovejoy as Flivver Johnson
- Norman Astwood as Mr. Marshall
- Augustus Smith as Pa Wilkins
- Alberta Perkins as Mercedes
- Edna Mae Harris as Singer
- Sidney Easton as Speed Simmons
- Dene Larry as Ola Wilkins
- Ernie Ransom as Jim Bracton
- Earl Sydnor as Gregory
Crew
- Arthur Dreifuss · Director
- Frank Wilson · Writer
- Vincent Valentini · Writer
- Bryna Ivens · Writer
- Arthur Dreifuss · Producer
- Donald Heywood · Composer
- George Webber · Cinematographer
- Robert O. Crandall · Editor