The Exile (1931 film)

Poster for The Exile, "Mighty epic of modern Negro life"

The Exile is a 1931 American pre-Code film directed by Oscar Micheaux with choreography by Leonard Harper. A drama-romance of the race film genre, The Exile was Micheaux's first feature-length sound film, and the first African-American sound film.[1][2] Adapted from Micheaux's first novel The Conquest (1913), it the film shares some autobiographical elements; for example, Micheaux spent several years as a cattle rancher in an otherwise all-white area of South Dakota as does the film's central character Jean Baptiste (played by Stanley Morrell).

  1. ^ The Exile (1931) on AfricanAmericans.com.
  2. ^ Beckerman, Jim, "Pioneering African-American film comes back to Fort Lee, where it all began", NorthJersey.com, February 16, 2014.