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Within Our Gates

Within Our Gates

DramaRomanceCrime
1920, Movie, 1h 14min
WITHIN OUR GATES is the earliest surviving feature film by an African American director. It was Oscar Micheaux’s second film (after 1919’s THE HOMESTEADER, now lost), centering on an idealistic young woman named Sylvia Landry (Evelyn Preer, one of the first great stars of the race film) who attempts to raise money for an elementary school for black children. In the course of navigating the racial politics of both the black and white communities, Sylvia’s past is revealed in a series of flashbacks that contain the film’s most notorious sequence: the lynching of her parents by a white mob. Micheaux’s staging of the scene is startling in its bluntness and speaks volumes about the director’s fearlessness and willingness to address taboo subject matter. The film touches upon other themes that would recur throughout the controversial filmmaker’s career, such as the promise of rural life vs. the corrupting influence of the city, and the use of religion as a means of misleading the black community.
Country: United States
Director:
Oscar Micheaux
Cast:
Leigh Whipper,
Mattie Edwards,
Evelyn Preer,
E.G. Tatum
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Oscar Micheaux
Director
Mattie Edwards
As Jasper's Wife
Evelyn Preer
As Sylvia Landry
E.G. Tatum
As Efram - Gridlestone's Servant
Bernice Ladd
As Mrs. Geraldine Stratton
William Starks
As Jasper Landry

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