Cab Calloway Movies

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington)...

Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl...

In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the...

Emanating from New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, WrestleMania 2 features Hulk Hogan defending the WWF Championship against King Kong Bundy inside a...

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.

The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.

A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Romm pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism and nazism in...

Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder. He joined the Marines but never...

As dancer Ginny Walker performs on stage, a veiled woman in the audience stands up, accuses Ginny of stealing her husband and then fires a gun at...

Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the...

Adapted from the book by Charles Tazewell. Michael, a shepherd boy living in Biblical times, finds himself transported to Heaven on his eighth...

Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the 20th Century. Smoked by generations to little discernible ill effect, it continues to be reviled by...

Rhythm and Blues Revue is a plotless variety show, one of several compiled for theatrical exhibition from the made-for-television short films...

Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and...

Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house...