The Dungeon (1922)

Directed by

Oscar Micheaux

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Oscar Micheaux adapts the Bluebeard folktale into a horror story about a man with a dark secret. The film follows a woman who marries a wealthy man and discovers his dangerous past.

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What happens

The Dungeon is a 1922 race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux. The Dungeon was his first horror effort, an early blaxploitation take on the Bluebeard legend. Micheaux was criticized by D. Ireland Thomas, a columnist with the Chicago Defender, for his casting of light-skinned African Americans who could pass for white, attempting to make his films more commercially successful. Thomas questioned whether Micheaux was "relying on his name alone to tell the public that it is a race production; or maybe he is after booking it in white theaters." No print of the film is known to exist and it is presumed to be a lost film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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