Marcus Garland

Marcus Garland is a 1925 race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux. The film offers a harsh parody on the rise and fall of Marcus Garvey, the Black nationalist and pan-Africanist leader.^[1] Few details on the film’s production survive, and some sources place its release in 1928.^[2]

No print of the film is known to exist and it is presumed to be a lost film.^[3]

References

1. ^ “Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video” by Valerie Smith, by Rutgers University Press, 1997, ISBN 0813523141
2. ^ “Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux” by J. Ronald Green, Indiana University Press, 2000, ISBN 0253337534
3. ^ “Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960” by Alan Gevinson, University of California Press, 1997, ISBN 0520209648

External links

• Marcus Garland in the Internet Movie Database