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Uncle Jasper's Will
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Wikipedia article
'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 Micheauxs landmark feature 'Within Our Gates' (1920).Spencer Moon, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0YQvCbc5pBcC&pg=PA249&lpg=PA249&dq=%22Uncle+Jasper%27s+Will%27+%22Oscar+Micheaux%22&source=web&ots=QNxLp6EfT4&sig=WigvEuaO55HYttk7JQTjn1yHuEc&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result 'Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers'], Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997, p. 249.
Cast
*William Fountaine
*Shingzie Howard
*Alma Sewell
*Harry Henderson (actor)
See also
*List of lost films
References
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