Double Deal (1939)
1h
Running Time
December 16, 1939Release Date
Plot.
Tommy McCoy and "Dude" Markey are both in love with Harlem singer/dancer Nita. Markey robs a jewelry store and turns the loot over to gang-boss Murray Howard. Later, Markey robs the safe, steals the jewelry, and, in order to get rid of his rival for Nita, frames the robbery on McCoy. The latter's big-brother thinks otherwise and, with Nita's help, sets out to prove it.
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Cast & Crew.
Monte Hawley
Jim McCoy
Jeni Le Gon
Nita
Edward Thompson
Dude Markey
Florence O'Brien
Sally
Maceo Bruce Sheffield
Murray Howard
Arthur Dreifuss
Director
Arthur Hoerl
Writer
F.E. Miller
Writer
Dixon R. Harwin
Producer
Mack Stengler
Cinematographer
Carl Pierson
Editor
Charles Gordon
Lanny
Shelton Brooks
Singer in Nightclub Floorshow
Lucille Battle
Nightclub Patron
Mildred Boyd
Nightclub Patron
Alfred Grant
Nightclub Patron
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Double Deal is a 1939 American drama with an all-black cast (a genre at the time called "race films"), written by Arthur Hoerl, produced by George Randol, directed by Arthur Dreifuss and released on the independent states-rights market by Sack Amusement Enterprises and Astor Pictures Corp.