Harlem Rides the Range

1939
56m

IMDb RATING

5.0/10

176

YOUR RATING

Herb Jeffries and The Four Blackbirds in Harlem Rides the Range (1939)

Drama Music Western

A cowboy and his sidekick try to help a homesteader from being cheated out of his property.A cowboy and his sidekick try to help a homesteader from being cheated out of his property.A cowboy and his sidekick try to help a homesteader from being cheated out of his property.

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IMDb RATING

5.0/10

176

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
This film received its first telecast Friday 1 December 1939 on New York City's pioneer, and still experimental television station W2XBS. This telecast took place less than a year after its national theatrical release which had taken place in February 1939.

Connections
Featured in Posse (1993)

Soundtracks
I'm a Happy Cowboy
Written by Herb Jeffries
Sung by Herb Jeffries and The Four Tones

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4/10

Meh

Like most B picture westerns of the 30's and early 40's this film is slow beyond belief. For example, they spend maybe 2.5 minutes on a bad joke about dog food. The acting is rather bad as well.

And then there's the studio shot scenes with obvious painted backgrounds of the west. At the end of the day this is nothing more than a B picture.

The print I saw was really bad -- like it was a complete shade of grey and the sound was muffled. Can't imagine that's what it was like back in the day, but then who knows?

And one more thing. How is this so historical? It's a movie that was made for blacks like Shaft in the 70's or those dumb Madea movies. Should we say that the non all black cast movies of the same time period are historical because they were made for white people?

Wonder what would have happened if a white guy went into a black theatre back then to see this.