The Midnight Ace
The Midnight Ace is a 1928 American crime film.[1][2] Abe DeComathiere, Mabel Kelly and Oscar Roy Dugas starred.[3] The film was directed by John H. Wade for Swan Micheaux's Dunbar Film Company. Swan Micheaux was Oscar Micheaux's brother.[4] Swan had worked for Oscar before a failling out over his management of finances. Swan left and formed the Dunbar film company but it only made this film.[5][6]
The movie's plot depicts a young woman falling for a man who she does not know is a criminal. A detective tracks him down and falls for the woman.[7] The film was adapted from a story by Jack Harrison, and was planned to be the first of several of his stories to be adapted by the film company.[8]
Cast
- Abe DeComathiere
- Mabel Kelly
- Oscar Ray Dugas
- Walter Cornick
- Susie Sutton[7]
References
- ^ Sampson, Henry T. (July 10, 1995). Blacks in Black and White: A Source Book on Black Films. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810826052 – via Google Books.
- ^ Pitts, Michael R. (July 10, 2004). Famous Movie Detectives III. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810836907 – via Google Books.
- ^ Musser, Charles; Gaines, Jane Marie; Bowser, Pearl (March 28, 2016). Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253021557 – via Google Books.
- ^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2021-03-06. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Lupack, Barbara Tepa; Lupack, Royalty Account Barbara (July 10, 2002). Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema: From Micheaux to Toni Morrison. University Rochester Press. ISBN 9781580461030 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "The Midnight Ace". www.tcm.com.
- ^ "Midnight Ace, The (1928)". The Pittsburgh Courier. March 24, 1928. p. 15 – via newspapers.com.