Acting
Elzie Emanuel
Born June 1, 1931 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Died December 2, 2004 · aged 73
No biography available.
Known For
No Way Out · 1950No Way Out
★ 6.91950
MovieDramaCrime
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.
To Have and Have Not · 1945To Have and Have Not
★ 7.51945
MovieAdventureRomance
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro · 1952The Snows of Kilimanjaro
★ 5.91952
MovieAdventureRomance
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Bright Leaf · 1950Bright Leaf
★ 6.01950
MovieDramaRomance
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
White Witch Doctor · 1953White Witch Doctor
★ 6.51953
MovieAdventureHorror
Ellen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native peoples. Lonni Douglas, an animal wrangler and fortune hunter, agrees to take her upriver, despite his misgivings about her suitability for Africa. They battle escaped gorillas, hostile natives, infected lion wounds, and hostile witch doctors to reach their destination and on the way, they fall in love. Will their contrasting interests doom their romance?
The Rack · 1956The Rack
★ 6.61956
MovieDramaWar
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp, he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell?
The Well · 1951The Well
★ 7.31951
MovieDrama
In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors run wild. Before hapless, innocent Claude Packard is even found, popular hysteria has him tried and convicted. But is he guilty?
Intruder in the Dust · 1949Intruder in the Dust
★ 7.31949
MovieDramaCrime
Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.
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To Have and Have Not · 1945To Have and Have Not
★ 7.51945
MovieAdventureRomance
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
Black Child (uncredited)


