Event Film and Video Screenings Dark Manhattan (1937)
Date and Location
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When: Friday, June 16, 2023
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm EDT
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Where: AFI Silver Theatre
8633 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Part of Festival of Film and Sound
Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.
Introduction by Maya Cade, founder of Black Film Archive.
Leading man Ralph Cooper also co-produced this ambitious all-Black film about aruthless gangster’s rise in the numbers racket. This modest yet effective film emphasizesinterpersonal conflict and betrayal over the violence that was surging in mainstream Hollywood gangster films of the day. Renowned Black actor Clarence Brooks plays themob boss Cooper pushes aside. Maya Cade wrote, “This film reimagines the Hollywoodgangster film but with an emphasis on the Black gaze.” DIR Harry Fraser; Starring Ralph Cooper,Clarence Brooks, Cleo Herndon. B&W. 70 mins. Not Rated. DCP. Restored in 2023 by the Library of Congress in cooperation with the Academy Film Archive.