The Gunsaulus Mystery
The Gunsaulus Mystery is a 1921 American silent race film directed, produced, and written by Oscar Micheaux. The film was inspired by events and figures in the 19131915 trial of Leo Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan. The film is now believed to be lost.
Arthurs sister Ida May Evelyn Preer contacts her former boyfriend, the attorney Sidney Wyeth Lawrence Chenault, to defend Gilpin in court. During the trial, Wyeth redirects attention for the murder away from Gilpin to Anthony Brisbane, a white man with a history of sexual deviancy. Gilpin is exonerated while Brisbane is revealed as Myrtle Gunsauluss killer.Oscar Micheaux, the most prolific AfricanAmerican filmmaker of the race film genre, had previously addressed the issue of violence by whites against blacks in his 1920 feature Within Our Gates, which aroused controversy. That films storyline, which included a portrayal of racial lynching and the sexual attack by a white man against a black woman, resulted in censorship rulings in Atlanta and other major cities throughout the U.S. ........
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