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Lem Hawkins' Confession lobby card, 1935
Oscar Michaeux, director
Lem Hawkins' Confession is based upon the 1913 Atlanta, Georgia, case where Jim Conley, an African American factory sweeper, provided critical evidence in the murder of Mary Phagan, a young, Southern, white, teenage employee. Based upon Conely's testimony at trial, Jewish superintendent Leo Frank was found guilty of Phagan's murder. Frank was convicted and eventually lynched by a mob.
Murder in Harlem
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Murder in Harlem (also released as Lem Hawkins Confession) is a 1935 American race film written, produced and directed by Oscar Micheaux, who also appears in the film. He remade his 1921 silent film The Gunsaulus Mystery.
Basing the works on the 1913 trial of Leo Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan, Micheaux used the detective genre to introduce different voices and conflicting accounts by his characters. |