Murder in Harlem (also released as Lem Hawkins Confession) is a 1935 American race film written; produced and directed by Oscar Micheaux; who also appears in the film. He remade his 1921 silent film The Gunsaulus Mystery. A black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body a murdered white woman. Basing the works on the 1913 trial of Leo Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan; Micheaux used the detective genre to introduce different voices and conflicting accounts by his characters.
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