Lying Lips (1939)

 One of independent movie maker Oscar Micheaux's mostly black casts for mostly black audience films. 'Lying Lips' stars Micheaux regular Edna Mae Harris as a successful night club performer, on failing to nudge her into prostitution her bosses frame her for the murder of her aunt, which was conviently perpetrated by a third party, some of her bosses are her cousins and would like to collect the insurance money. The story odd, the acting and dialogue poor, the exposition embarsingly heavy handed. There is a sequence where the cops take a suspect to a suposedly haunted house to scare information out of him. A fair bit of the film is set in a night club so we get to see bits and pieces of various black acts performe, which is the chief historical value in the film. *1/2