Spencer Williams Movies

Spencer Williams' comedy feature.

A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.

The film is set in Memphis, Tennessee and focuses on a street sweeper who comes upon a large parcel of money. He uses the newly acquired wealth to go...

"Willie Dime," a big, bad taxi driver, is very jealous of "Miss Eva" and it burns him up to see any fool Jelly-bean "carrying on flirtatious...

Musical film with an all-black cast.

An uncle discusses the life of Martin de Porres with his niece. de Porres was a late sixteenth-century Peruvian who was elevated to sainthood in 1962...

During World War II, a young African American is forced to continue his family’s tradition of military service when he is drafted into the...

Virtually unseen for more than eighty years, Spencer Williams’s first film is a one-reel comedy short in which a rivalry between two men is...