Way Down South (1939) — crime, music film. Directed by Leslie Goodwins, Bernard Vorhaus. Starring Bobby Breen, Alan Mowbray, Ralph Morgan, Steffi Duna.
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A young heir fights to protect his father's estate and enslaved community from a corrupt executor's greed.
Crime, Music · 6.4/10 · 61 min · 1939
In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.
Related entry on Wikidata (Q7975772), public domain (CC0).
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