Word: mofolaba
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...story, derived from Edgar Wallace. Director Korda hired a high-grade black & white cast. Leslie Banks plays District Commissioner Sanders. Paul Robeson is Bosambo, a reformed convict who becomes chief of a small tribe. Nina Mae McKinney (Hallelujah) is his wife. The part of King Mofolaba, a scapegrace chief whose misdemeanors account for most of the action, is ably played by a 77-year-old Negro hair-tonic specialist named Toto Wane. When, inflamed by contraband gin, he executes a white man and then plots to kill and skin Paul Robeson, it is too much for Commissioner Sanders. He turns...
Good shot: King Mofolaba. summoned to palaver with Sanders, arriving in a hammock with a slave carrying a chair for him to sit on when he gets...
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