| 词条 | The Black King (film) |
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| name = The Black King | image = File:The Black King film cover.jpg | alt = | caption = | director = Bud Pollard | producer = | writer = Morris M. Levinson & Donald Heywood[1] | starring = {{startplainlist}}
| cinematography = | editing = Dal Clawson | distributor = Southland Pictures | released = {{film date|1932|07}}{{r|imdb}} | runtime = 72 minutes{{r|imdb}} | country = United States | language = English | budget = }}{{italic title}} The Black King was a 1932 race film chronicling the rise and fall of a fictionalized charismatic leader of a back-to-Africa movement, modeled on the life of Marcus Garvey. ThemesThe Black King chronicled the rise and fall of a fictionalized charismatic leader of a back-to-Africa movement, modeled on the life of Marcus Garvey. The film explores numerous critiques of Garvey's movement, including the lack of knowledge about Africa, the presumptuousness in making plans for future development and government in Africa without consultation of people already there, and conflicts between lighter skinned and darker skinned African Americans.{{sfn|Leab|1975}} While Garvey was a primarily a political leader with religious opinions, his counterpart in the film was primarily a preacher and religious leader.{{sfn|Weisenfeld|2007|p=138f}}{{sfn|Leab|1975}} HistoryThe Black King was written as a stage play by Donald Heywood and plans were publicly announced to produce it on Broadway directed by Russian choreographer Léonide Massine. This never took place. Instead, Heywood's story was adapted by Morris M. Levinson and it was produced as a film by Southland Pictures under white director Bud Pollard in 1932.{{sfn|Weisenfeld|2007|p=138}} Leab, a 1975 commentator, rates it well as entertainment, saying it has "a more carefully plotted storyline than most other black genre films of its time".{{sfn|Leab|1975}} The film was re-released in the 1940s under the title, Harlem Big Shot.{{sfn|Leab|1975}} Citations1. ^https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022692/ 2. ^https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-black-king-v5889/cast-crew References{{refbegin}}
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