Gang Smashers (1938) | Nina Mae McKinney & Mantan Moreland
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ส.ค. 2018
- Gang Smashers (1938) aka Gun Moll.
One of producer Ralph Cooper's independently produced action films starring an all-black cast. Cooper would go on to be the longtime emcee of the Apollo Theater's Amateur night. Buy his memoir at
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From Black Lenses, Black Voices: African American Film Now by Mark Reid:
In 1937, Ralph Cooper and George Randol, two African Americans, and Ben Rinaldo, a white American, organized the Cooper-Randol Pro-duction Company in Los Angeles. The same year, Cooper and Harry Fraser's Dark Manhattan (Cooper-Randol Production Company, 1937) became the first all-black-cast gangster film made in Hollywood.' The film dramatizes a man's rise in the numbers racket, his love for a night-club singer, and his death at the hands of a rival mobster. The Cooper-Randol film company was short-lived and produced only one film; Ralph Cooper left the company and established Million Dollar Produc-tions with Harry and Leo Popkin, two white Americans. Cooper wrote and sometimes directed, while the Popkin brothers financed and distrib-uted Cooper's films.' Their first such collaboration was Bargain with Bul-lets (Million Dollar Productions, 1937), which Cooper wrote, directed, and starred in.' The following year, Cooper wrote Gang Smashers (Mil-lion Dollar Productions, 1938), which featured Nina Mae McKinney as a Harlem crime boss (almost ten years earlier, McKinney had performed the leading role of Chick in King Vidor's black musical Hallelujah! [MGM, 1929]). In the film Gang War (Million Dollar Productions, 1939), Cooper portrayed a mobster who struggles unsuccessfully for con-trol over the jukebox machines in Harlem. Gang War was Cooper's last film for the Popkin brothers' Million Dollar Productions.
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before Lena or Dorothy Dandridge there was Miss Nina Mae McKINNEY! Thanks for this gem!
i love watching mantan moreland. he was the best.
I agree. He's so entertaining!
WOW……thank you so much for showing this lost classic ! Part of American history. Mantan has got some dance moves, light on his feet. I am a huge Mantan Moreland fan. I Would love to see his movie ‘MANTAN RUN’S FOR MAYOR’ from 1946.
I would too, but it's lost at the moment. Fortunately, "Mr. Washington Goes to Town" has been recently found and uploaded onto TH-cam. So there's some hope .
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Thank you so much for uploading this film...I'm a big Nina Mae McKinney fan!!!
HoneyHoneyBaby I hope you enjoy the movie!
HoneyHoneyBaby.
Nina Mae killed her role. Brilliant! 👏🏾👏🏾
Nina Mae Mckinney played an undercover agent, not a crime boss. Movie was awesome
I had to see her talent because I watched Ashley Says so talked about the life of Nina Mae MC.Kennely life.
Love them HATS, man! McKinney looks like she got it GOIN' ON!
It seems these movie were made on the east coast, I live in LA and had no former knowledge of these films from this era - this is an honor and a pleasure.
Cool Beans! This is my user name. (smile) Loves it! My favorite movie from Screen Goddess Nina Mae McKinney! "Gang Smashers" will be 80 years old on December 30, 2018.
Miss Gang Smashers Yay...I love Nina Mae and I've always wanted to see this movie, now I finally get the chance to!
My Grandmama,s name was Nina…..I used to tease her about being name Nina Mae…she would just laugh and giggle….miss you so much Ma.
The opening music is Vltava from Smetana's ''Ma Vlast'' symphonic poems. Beautiful!
Depending on when this came out malcolm X was 12 or no more than 13yrs. My grandmother on my pops side was 30✌🏾
Good movie
That Lady is The Bomb all the way from Top to Bottom...
cool move .good old Mantan.
Thanks. I didn't know about Ralph Cooper, though did know about Spencer Williams Jr. You might be interested by the 50's movie The Well.
The Stanky
Leg at 31:14! LOL!
They are smoking the good cigars that we got to pay a arm and a leg to get now!
I LOVE your channel, Reelback One :D .
Awesome, thank you!
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Wait!! Didn’t I just see Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson in this film? I don’t see him in the credits on IMDB. please let me know if you know!
Ahhhh. It is Mantan Moreland that I confused with Eddie Anderson.
Martin Moreland is definitely the best😁❤❤
She had a deep rich speaking voice
Very good film.
Thanks for uploading
The sad truth IS HOLLYWOOD was depicting us as Savages and buffoons... and here is Our Self image.
Too many ads booo
Is it possible to get My Dear Vivian: the story of Johnny Cash's first wife, said to be part Black!!
Thank you! Love your channel and appreciate your hard work..
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Be safe everyone!
Thanking the "colored men and women". I'm sure they were just tickled pink by that generous as nnouncement.
Mantan Moreland made any movie he was in better
Poor quality but worth watching Mantan. March, 2023.
As if they had abolished crime in the USA!