The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940)

Directors

Oscar Micheaux

Cast

Carman Newsome, Edna Mae Harris, Juano Hernández, Oscar Polk, Robert Earl Jones, Sam Taub

The story

Elinor Lee, a gangster’s moll living in the Harlem section of New York City, has signed up-and-coming boxer Benny Blue to a 10-year contract. Lee and a pair of corrupt fight promoter scheme to build up Blue as a potential champion, with the goal of betting against him when they force him to take a dive in a champion fight. Lee conspires to hire Fredi, an old friend of Blue and an escaped convict hiding from the law, to be his sweetheart and to control him for Lee and her partners.

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