-- Synopsis: The is one of the first all-African American feature films ever made and was King Vidor's first " talkie." This film is about Zeke (Daniel L. Haynes) a naive cotton farmer who is in love with Missy Rose (Victoria Spivey) but falls into the net of very corrupt pretty hoochie dancer (Nina Mae McKinney) in a rigged craps game while already traveling a rocky road from sin to redemption. The movie portrays the wrenching poverty and backbreaking labor of the life of a sharecropper, and a loving mother who never gives up hope for her wayward son as well as the faith to survive it all. This film is a well done for the time and is a provocative movie on faith and religion. This film was shot on location in Tennessee and shows much of the real thing in those days such as the Holy Roller meetings, a wake, cabarets, Juke Joints and various Plantation scenes. This is an excellent film for those who enjoy old movies or History of any kind. It was so good this film was nominated for an Oscar Award.

* There are some superb dance routines such as the short Sand Soft Shoe number and the Charleston. Scenes portraying the African-American church with its unique praise and the importance of dance and song.