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'Body and Soul'
(1925)
Body and Soul (1925) featured Paul Robesonin his screen debut. Robeson plays a dual role of a good twin brother and a bogus preacher who preys on a small communitys religious fervor and then attempts to rape the heroine Julia Theresa Russell (Micheauxs future sister-in-law). The African American press, sometimes misguided, criticized him for representing corruption in the black clergy (a sensitive area) and exploiting black urban life, crime and sexuality in his films. The film ran into trouble with New York censors. The censored and truncated print of Body and Soul, unfortunately, is all that survives of Micheauxs original intentions.
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