William Fountaine

William Fountaine

Movies for William Fountaine...

Hallelujah
Title: Hallelujah
Character: Hot Shot
Released: August 20, 1929
Type: Movie
A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.
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The Virgin of the Seminole
Title: The Virgin of the Seminole
Released: April 15, 1923
Type: Movie
The film focused on a young black man who joins the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and becomes a hero by rescuing a captive mixed-race woman from a hostile American Indian tribe. The young man later purchases a ranch that becomes the foundation for great financial wealth.
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Deceit
Title: Deceit
Released: March 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Deceit (sometimes referred to as The Deceit) is a 1923 American silent black-and-white film. It is a conventional melodrama directed by Oscar Micheaux. Like many of Micheaux's films, Deceit casts clerics in a negative light. Although the film was shot in 1921, it was not released until 1923. It is not known whether the film currently survives, which suggests that it is a lost film. The 1922 film The Hypocrite was shown within Deceit as a film within a film.
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The Dungeon
Title: The Dungeon
Character: Stephen Cameron (as William E. Fountaine)
Released: May 22, 1922
Type: Movie
The Dungeon is a 1922 race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux, considered the African-American Cecil B. DeMille due to his prolific output of films during the silent era, one of his greatest works being Body and Soul (1924). The Dungeon was his first horror effort, an early blaxploitation take on the Bluebeard legend. No print of the film is known to exist and it is presumed to be a lost film.
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Uncle Jasper's Will
Title: Uncle Jasper's Will
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
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.