Way Down South
- Original title
- Way Down South
- Year
- 1939
- Running time
- 61 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Edwin Maxwell
- Bobby Breen
- Alan Mowbray
- Steffi Duna
- Charles Middleton
- Ralph Morgan
- Clarence Muse
- Sally Blane
- Ed Cassidy
- Lillian Yarbo
- Willie Best
- Robert Greig
- Don Brodie
- Matthew 'Stymie' Beard
- Lillian Randolph
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- Music
- Cinematography
Charles Edgar Schoenbaum (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Western. Musical | Southern Gothic
- Synopsis
- In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.
- Awards
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1939: Academy Award Nominee: Best Music, Scoring (Victor Young)1939: Academy Awards (Oscars): nominated to Best Scoring of Music (adaptation or treatment).
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