Way Down South (film)

Way Down South
Directed by	Leslie Goodwins Bernard Vorhaus
Produced by	Sol Lesser
Written by	Clarence Muse Langston Hughes
Starring	Bobby Breen Alan Mowbray
Music by	Victor Young (uncredited)
Production company	Sol Lesser Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release dates	July 21, 1939 (1939-07-21)
Running time	61-63 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Way Down South (1939) is an American musical film directed by Leslie Goodwins and Bernard Vorhaus, and produced by Sol Lesser. It was written by Clarence Muse, who also acted in the film, and Langston Hughes. Victor Young was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring.^[1]

Plot

In pre-Civil War Louisiana in 1854, young Timothy Reid Jr. (Breen) is orphaned. He inherits a plantation and its well-cared-for slaves. However, lawyer Martin Dill (Maxwell) is made the executor for the minor. Dill plots to sell off the slaves and flee to Paris with the proceeds. Timothy is befriended by Jacques Bouton (Mowbray), who persuades Judge Louis Ravenal (Greig) to look into the matter and save the day.

Cast

Bobby Breen as Timothy Reid Jr.
Alan Mowbray as Jacques Bouton
Ralph Morgan as Timothy Reid Sr.
Steffi Duna as Pauline Dubini
Clarence Muse as Uncle Caton
Sally Blane as Claire Bouton
Edwin Maxwell as Martin Dill
Charles Middleton as Cass
Robert Greig as Judge Louis Ravenal
Lillian Yarbo as Janie
Matthew Beard as Gumbo (as Stymie Beard)
Hall Johnson Choir as Musical Ensemble

References

↑ "Victor Young". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved February 20, 2013.

External links

Way Down South at the American Film Institute Catalog
Way Down South at the Internet Movie Database
Way Down South at the TCM Movie Database
Way Down South at AllMovie

Langston Hughes

Poems	"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1921) "The Weary Blues" (1926) "Pierrot" (1926) "Come to the Waldorf Astoria" (1931) "Let America be America Again" (1938) "Note on Commercial Theatre" (1940)

Collections	Fine Clothes to the Jew (poems, 1927) The Ways of White Folks (short stories, 1934) Montage of a Dream Deferred (poems 1951)

Plays	Mule Bone (1931) Street Scene (1947) Tambourines to Glory (1956) Black Nativity (1961) Jerico-Jim Crow (1964)

Novels	Not Without Laughter (1930)

Films	Way Down South (1939)

People	Charles Henry Langston (grandfather) John Mercer Langston (great uncle)

The films of Bernard Vorhaus

The Ghost Camera (1933)
On Thin Ice (1933)
Money for Speed (1933)
Crime on the Hill (1933)
Blind Justice (1934)
The Night Club Queen (1934)
The Broken Melody (1934)
Street Song (1935)
Ten Minute Alibi (1935)
Dark World (1935)
The Last Journey (1936)
Dusty Ermine (1936)
Cotton Queen (1937)
Tenth Avenue Kid (1937)
King of the Newsboys (1938)
Fisherman's Wharf (1939)
Way Down South (1939)
Meet Dr. Christian (1939)
The Courageous Dr. Christian (1940)
Three Faces West (1940)
Lady from Louisiana (1941)
Angels with Broken Wings (1941)
Hurricane Smith (1941)
Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case (1941)
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (1942)
Ice-Capades Revue (1942)
Winter Wonderland (1947)
Bury Me Dead (1947)
The Spiritualist (1948)
So Young, So Bad (1950)
Pardon My French (1951)
Finishing School (1953)

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