Juke Joint (1946)
1946 · Feature film · 59 min · dir. Spencer Williams
The Joint is Jumpin'! / The Jive is Jivvin'! / The Jam is Jammin'! / Everybody's High in the Happy Slap-Happy Holiday Family!
- Comedy
- Drama
Synopsis
Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five cents between them. The duo arrange to become boarders at the home of Louella "Mama Lou" Holiday, who is fooled into believing Johnson is an acting teacher from Hollywood. Mrs. Holiday agrees to give the men free room and board if they will provide poise lessons to her daughter, an aspiring beauty queen named Honey Dew.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Spencer Williams
- Writer
- True T. Thompson
- Cinematography
- George Sanderson
- Studio
- Sack Amusement Enterprises
- Released
- 1947-01-01
- Running time
- 59 minutes
Cast & crew
Spencer Williams Director- Spencer Williams
- July Jones
- Inez Newell
- Leonard Duncan
- Dauphine Moore
Katherine Moore- Tilford Patterson
Albert Smith
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Print isn't very good, but... · Dr Feel Rotten · 2011-02-11
I love this film non the less because it's real and funny as hell. This reminds me so much of so many people I grew up with and my own mother never had the first qualm about bending me over her knee either. Some of the acting was great and some stank, but the real feel to it is what makes this one so special. These were real events the way they played out..still are in many peoples lives.
★★★ · Hot Night at the Juke Joint · Poohbah70 · 2019-10-07
An entertaining film with a down home plot and feel and a a little good music. It was directed by and starred Spencer Williams (later to find national fame as Andy on the TV show "Amos and Andy") - as director, he gets as much out of a cast of unknowns (at least IMDb unknowns) as possible. This is also the best acting I have seen from Williams in a "race" film. The cast of unknowns - whatever their training or previous experience - give surprisingly natural performances - whether as an irresponsible husband and father, a no nonsense head of the family mother, an older daughter who is tired of…
