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(Redirected from Jasper Landry's Will) 1922 film by Oscar Micheaux

Uncle Jasper's Will
Directed byOscar Micheaux
Written byOscar Micheaux
Produced byOscar Micheaux
Release date
  • 1922 (1922)
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish (silent)

Uncle Jasper's Will (also released as Jasper Landry's Will) is a 1922 race film directed, produced and written by Oscar Micheaux. The film is a drama about the contents of a last will and testament left behind by an African-American sharecropper who was lynched after being falsely accused of the murder of a white plantation owner. The film was intended as a sequel to Micheaux’s landmark feature Within Our Gates (1920).

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References

  1. Spencer Moon, Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997, p. 249.

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Films directed by Oscar Micheaux


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