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The Girl in Room 20
USA 1946
produced by H.W. Kier for United Films
directed by Spencer Williams
starring Geraldine Brock, Spencer Williams, Howard Gallowayx, R. Jore, E. Celese Allen, July Jones, James B. Edward, Buzz Ayecock, Charles M. Reese, Marnie Fisher, Frank Tanner, Myra D. Hemmings, Margery Moore, John Hemmings, Mrs. F.D.Benson, G.T.Sutton, Montagne McCormy, Norma Johnson, Dorothy Scott
written by Spencer Williams
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Daisy Mae (Geraldine Brock) is a good girl from a small town in Texas,
but since she is also a talented singer, she decides to leave her family
and her sweetheart Dunbar (R.Jore) behind to move to New York and try to
make it big - but that expedition almost ends in immediate desaster when
the house she planned to stay at turns out to be a whorehouse and its
owner Mamie (Mamie Fisher) would be more than happy to employ her ... it's
only thanks to sympathetic cabby Philips (Spencer Williams) that she gets
away ...
Evetnually, Daisy Mae moves into a cheap hotel where she makes the
acquaintance of a musical troupe who are more than happy to employ her as
a singer since for their next show they are one act short anyways ...
Soon enough, Daisy Mae catches the eye of the show's producer
Richardson (Howard Galloway), who pays her her own appartment and
everything - but of course, he forgets to tell her that he has a wife ...
Philips finds out about Daisy Mae's relationship - however
harmless it is yet -, and knowing this will come to a bad end, he phones
Dunbar to come over from Texas to help his girlfriend ... and not a minute
too soon, as Dunbar and Philips arrive at Daisy Mae's appartment just when
Richardson is trying to rape her. Dunbar and Richardson soon enough get
into a fight. Then Richardson's wife shows up too, and fires a shot - that
accidently hits Daisy Mae and she is hospitalized - and while she is in
hospital, her musical troupe lose an all-important gig because they can't
afford the costumes needed by a long shot. Then though, Dunbar learns that
gold was found on his ranch, and he is suddenly immensely rich and invites
everybody to live with him in Texas where he will marry Daisy Mae ...
Another all-black moral play by Spencer Williams about the battle
between vice and virtue, with virtue once again triumphing in the end,
made on a shoestring like most black movies of its time. Nothing special,
actually.
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