The Midnight Ace is a 1928 American crime film.[1][2] Abe DeComathiere, Mabel Kelly and Oscar Roy Dugas starred.[3] The film was directed by John H. Wade for Swan Micheaux's Dunbar Film Company. Swan Micheaux was Oscar Micheaux's brother.[4] Swan had worked for Oscar before a failling out over his management of finances. Swan left and formed the Dunbar film company but it only made this film.[5][6]

The movie's plot depicts a young woman falling for a man who she does not know is a criminal. A detective tracks him down and falls for the woman.[7] The film was adapted from a story by Jack Harrison, and was planned to be the first of several of his stories to be adapted by the film company.[8]

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References

  1. Sampson, Henry T. (July 10, 1995). Blacks in Black and White: A Source Book on Black Films. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810826052 via Google Books.
  2. Pitts, Michael R. (July 10, 2004). Famous Movie Detectives III. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810836907 via Google Books.
  3. Musser, Charles; Gaines, Jane Marie; Bowser, Pearl (March 28, 2016). Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253021557 via Google Books.
  4. "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2021-03-06. Retrieved 2021-07-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. Lupack, Barbara Tepa; Lupack, Royalty Account Barbara (July 10, 2002). Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema: From Micheaux to Toni Morrison. University Rochester Press. ISBN 9781580461030 via Google Books.
  7. 1 2 "The Midnight Ace". www.tcm.com.
  8. "Midnight Ace, The (1928)". The Pittsburgh Courier. March 24, 1928. p. 15 via newspapers.com.
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