''Uncle Jasper's Will'' (also released as ''Jasper Landry's Will'') is a 1922

race film The race film or race movie was a genre of film produced in the United States between about 1915 and the early 1950s, consisting of films produced for African American, black audiences, and featuring black casts. Approximately five hundred race ...

directed, produced and written by

Oscar Micheaux Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (; January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and c ...

. The film is a drama about the contents of a last will and testament left behind by an

African-American African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. ...

sharecropper who was lynched after being falsely accused of the murder of a white plantation owner. The film was intended as a sequel to Micheaux’s landmark feature '' Within Our Gates'' (1920).Spencer Moon
''Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers''
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997, p. 249.

Cast

* William Fountaine * Shingzie Howard *Alma Sewell * Harry Henderson

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* 1922 films 1922 drama films 1922 lost films 1920s American films American black-and-white films American silent feature films Films directed by Oscar Micheaux Lost American drama films Race films Silent American drama films Lost silent American films {{1920s-silent-drama-film-stub

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