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The House Behind the Cedars

1927
Directed by Oscar Micheaux
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Cast

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Plot

Adapted from a novel by Charles W. Chesnutt on mixed race and passing, it drew controversy that forced cuts. Micheaux remade it as the sound film Veiled Aristocrats (1932).

Sinekatalog’s take

Oscar Micheaux's silent adaptation of Charles Chesnutt's novel of mixed race and passing drew controversy that forced cuts, and he later remade it as a sound film. A rare surviving glimpse of Black filmmaking from the 1920s, bold in its subject.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

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