Way Down South (1939)
Directed by Bernard Vorhaus, Leslie Goodwins · 61 min · Crime, Music
0.3 TOPICAL score · #6,738 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.
Way Down South (1939, directed by Bernard Vorhaus and Leslie Goodwins) has a TOPICAL score of 0.3 - ranked 6,738 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on awards and lasting engagement, and lowest on cast. It won 0 awards from 1 nomination. Audiences: TMDB 6.4/10 (7 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 5 languages.
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- AudienceTMDB 6.4/10 (7 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 1 nomination
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 5 languages
- Still read313 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Bobby Breen (actor #1,977), Alan Mowbray (actor #1,924), Ralph Morgan (actor #1,791), Steffi Duna
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