Product Details

• Actors: Spencer Williams, Geraldine Brock, Edna Mae Harris, Grace Smith, July Jones
• Directors: Spencer Williams, Oscar Micheaux
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: January 1, 2004
• Run Time: 270 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00062IYXW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,512 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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GIRL IN ROOM 20/SON OF INGAGI/GIRL FR - DVD Movie

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Race film 4-pack includes horror and murder/mysteries, August 17, 2007

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Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 4 Feature Films: The Girl in Room 20 / Son of Ingagi / The Girl From Chicago / Lying Lips (Silver Screen Series) (DVD)

"Race movies," a genre unique to the United States between 1915 and 1947, were quite popular with black Southern audiences and in Northern industrial cities that had large African American communities. After the successful legal desegregation of the film industry in 1948, this type of movie vanished, literally. Today, only a fifth of the original 500 race films still exist.

SYNOPSES:

"The Girl From Chicago" - A Secret Service agent falls in love with a schoolteacher in a small Mississippi town. They leave for New York City to escape a local crime boss, but trouble follows them there.

"The Girl in Room 20" - A country girl with a fine singing voice moves to the big city to seek her fortune. She finds both support and grief in her struggle to succeed.

"Lying Lips" - A nightclub singer is wrongly convicted of murdering her aunt. Her manager and a policeman continue searching for the actual killer.

"Son of Ingagi" - The first horror film with an "all-colored cast." This was a sequel to 1931's "Ingagi," and is the story of an American missionary who returns from the jungles with $20,000 in gold nuggets and an ape-like man.

A similar 4-movie collection is Race Films: The Duke Is Tops/The Black King/Spirit Of Youth/The Glove.

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Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings found at a film resource website.

(5.3) The Girl From Chicago (1932) - Grace Smith/Carl Mahon/Starr Calloway/John Everett

(3.3) The Girl in Room 20 (1946) - Geraldine Brock/Spencer Williams/R. Jore/July Jones

(5.5) Lying Lips (1939) - Edna Mae Harris/Robert Earl Jones/Carmen Newsome/Armanda Randolph

(3.5) Son of Ingagi (1940) - Zach Williams/Laura Bowman/Alfred Grant/Spencer Williams/The Four Toppers

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Race Movies, August 8, 2010

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Chantal Hinton (Kansas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 4 Feature Films: The Girl in Room 20 / Son of Ingagi / The Girl From Chicago / Lying Lips (Silver Screen Series) (DVD)

I recently viewed this DVD and enjoyed it. I like knowing I am supporting black actors, producers, etc. that had talent and desire to create their own version of movies; those different from the white Hollywood genre.
Some of the filming is primative and some in poorer condition than others but this is history and should be viewed and enjoyed.
I especially enjoyed Lying Lips. One actor in this film looked and sounded familiar and it turns out he is Earl Jones who is the father of James Earl Jones. I of course had to check out more on google after viewing the film and also found out this was Earl Jone's first film.
I am building a library of old films including this genre and am excited that I discovered this diamond in the ruff!

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Race Movies survive, March 11, 2008

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Richard C. Jones - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 4 Feature Films: The Girl in Room 20 / Son of Ingagi / The Girl From Chicago / Lying Lips (Silver Screen Series) (DVD)

Everyone should get their hands on these films that are so out of circulation. The plots were suited to the day and were quite thin and flimsy, but to see them is worth sitting through them and having a good laugh. These important films are a boon to any serious collector,