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5q864 TAKE MY LIFE 1sh R40s Harlem Dead End Kids, great images of inner-city kids, Murder Rap!

Date Sold 6/25/2009

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An Undated (probably 1940s) Re-Release (re-titled "Murder Rap" for this re-release) Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More)

Take My Life, the 1941 Harry M. Popkin black African American World War II (WWII) military juvenile delinquent crime murder melodrama ("Harlem Goes to War!"; "Thrill to the Brown Bombers in action"; about a group of tough Harlem street kids who are befriended by a gangster, but when the gangster kills someone, one of the kids is blamed, and the gangster goes on the run, and the kid is sentenced to be executed, but at the end, the gangster is in a car crash, and in the hospital, one of the kids tricks him into thinking he is about to be electrocuted, and he makes a deathbed confession) starring The Harlem Dead End Kids (including Freddie Baker, Jack Carter and DeForst Covan), Monte Hawley, Jeni Le Gon and "An All Star Colored Cast". Note that the screenwriter of this movie clearly heavily borrowed from the James Cagney classic, "Angels with Dirty Faces", but they added a strong patriotic element, having the kids learn all about patriotism from an Army recruiter, and at the end of the movie when they are cleared, they all join the Army and appear in uniform! This was the first movie to show African Americans serving in World War II in a positive light.
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