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Actor Augustus Smith

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Chloe, Love Is Calling You 1934 ( 3.357)

A black voodoo priestess comes out of the Louisiana swamps to take revenge on the white plantation owner she believes killed her husband. The old conjure woman Mandy returns with her daughter Chloe to their bayou home after fifteen years. Chloe was too young to remember much about the bayou, but once Mandy had been a famous voodoo priestess in these parts. But after the whites lynched her husband Sam, she took her little girl & moved away into the Everglades. She seems to have gone a little mad in the intervening years & has returned swearing a belated vengeance against the murdering white folks.

Drums O' Voodoo 1934 ( 4.8)

In Louisiana, a voodoo priestess and a minister preach their religion to the same community. One day, an evil man named Tom comes into town and tries to force the minister's daughter to go with him to his sinful place across the river where all manners of "evil" things occur like drinking and gambling! It's up to the voodoo priestess to stop Tom before he can corrupt the innocent girl.

Killer Diller 1948 ( 4.9)

An all-Black comedy and dance revue with stars of stage and screen.

Actor J. Augustus Smith

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Junction 88 1947 ( 5)

In Junction 88, a small all-black community, pretty Lolly Simpkins loves gentle songwriter Buster Jenkins, who makes too little money to marry. Her father favors rival suitor Onnie, crude but with a better income. Buster's best chance comes when impresario Bob Howard, to whom he's sent songs, comes to town looking for him. But Bob is looking for a pseudonym, 'Hewlett Green', that nobody's ever heard of. Will Buster reveal himself? Meanwhile, a very jazzy church concert.