Ten Minutes to Live
1932 film
- Oscar Micheaux (adaptation)
- Oscar Micheaux (story "Harlem After Midnight")
- Lawrence Chenault
- A. B. DeComathiere
- Laura Bowman
- Willor Lee Guilford
Release date
- 1932 (1932)
Running time
Ten Minutes to Live is a 1932 American pre-Code film directed by Oscar Micheaux and starring Lawrence Chenault, A. B. DeComathiere, Laura Bowman, and Willor Lee Guilford. One of the characters is deaf and much of the dialogue was dubbed offscreen.[1] The film is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.[2]
Plot summary
A producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is have sex with her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that she will soon get another note, and that she will be killed ten minutes after that.
Cast
- Lawrence Chenault as Gary Martin[3]
- A. B. DeComathiere as Anthony
- Laura Bowman as Ida Morton
- Willor Lee Guilford as Letha Watkins
- Tressie Mitchell as Charlotte Evans
- Mabel Garrett as Ida Groves
- Carl Mahon as Martin
- Galle De Gaston as Galle
- George Williams as George
- Lorenzo Tucker as The Godfather
- William A. Clayton Jr. as Morvis
- Donald Heywood as Master of Ceremonies
- Arnold Wiley as Tap Dancer
Soundtrack
References
External links
- Ten Minutes to Live at IMDb
- Ten Minutes to Live is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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Films directed by Oscar Micheaux
- The Homesteader (1919)
- Within Our Gates (1920)
- The Brute (1920)
- The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)
- The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921)
- The Dungeon (1922)
- The Hypocrite (1922)
- Uncle Jasper's Will (1922)
- The Virgin of the Seminole (1922)
- Deceit (1923)
- Birthright (1924)
- A Son of Satan (1924)
- Body and Soul (1925)
- Marcus Garland (1925)
- The Conjure Woman (1926)
- The Devil's Disciple (1926)
- The Spider's Web (1926)
- The Millionaire (1927)
- The Broken Violin (1928)
- The House Behind the Cedars (1927)
- Thirty Years Later (1928)
- When Men Betray (1929)
- The Wages of Sin (1929)
- Easy Street (1930)
- A Daughter of the Congo (1930)
- Darktown Revue (1931)
- The Exile (1931)
- Veiled Aristocrats (1932)
- Ten Minutes to Live (1932)
- Black Magic (1932)
- The Girl from Chicago (1932)
- Phantom of Kenwood (1933)
- Harlem After Midnight (1934)
- Murder in Harlem (1935)
- Temptation (1936)
- Underworld (1937)
- God's Step Children (1938)
- Swing! (1938)
- Lying Lips (1939)
- Birthright (1939)
- The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940)
- The Betrayal (1948)
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