Monte Hawley

Set to blues, swing and jazz music, an unpopular band lead leader is killed in a Harlem nightclub.

An overworked bandleader goes to a sanitarium for a rest and dreams of life on a dude ranch, where he protects a beautiful ranch owner from a villain.

An undercover anti-gang agent works in a nightclub where a protection racket is headquartered.

When his songstress sweetheart refuses to leave him for a gig in the Big Apple, a tireless promoter hatches a selfless scheme to lead her to stardom.

A pair of rival mobsters wrestle for control over Harlem’s increasingly profitable juke joint racket in this noir drama with an all-Black cast.