Paghat the Ratgirl's
Film Reviews Index

• AKEELAH & THE BEE. 2006
  
• AMOS 'N' ANDY. 1951-1952
  
• AN ALL-COLORED VAUDEVILLE SHOW. 1935
  
• AMALIA AGUILAR: AFRO MOOD. 1940s
  
• AMERICAN HERITAGE: DUKE ELLINGTON. 1992
  
• THE ANIMATED CAB CALLOWAY, 1932-1955
  
• THE ANIMATED CAB CALLOWAY. 1932-1955
  
• ANIMATION STEREOTYPES 1936-1947
  
• ANIMATION STEREOTYPES, Continued. 1930-1942
  
• ANNA LUCASTA. 1959
  
• ANSWER TO "OPEN THE DOOR RICHARD". 1945
  
• BACK STAGE BLUES. 1943
  
• BETTER THAN CHOCOLATE. 1999
  
• THE BIG BANDS: DUKE ELLINGTON, LIONEL HAMPTON. 1988, 2000, 2004
  
• BIG TIMERS. 1945
  
• BILLY ECKSTINE SINGS & DIZZY GILLESPIE SWINGS. 2004
  
• BIRMINGHAM BLACK BOTTOM: THE FIRST ALL BLACK CAST TALKIES. 2003
  
• BLACK & TAN. 1929
  
• BLACK CINEMA: SILENCE TO SOUND, 1903-1950. 2007
  
• THE BLACK NETWORK. 1936
  
• BLOOD OF JESUS. 1941
  
• BOARDING HOUSE BLUES. 1948
  
• BODY & SOUL. 1925
  
• BOJANGLES. 2001
  
• BOOGIE-WOOGIE DREAM. 1944
  
• BORDERLINE. 1930, for Paul Robeson
  
• BOY! WHAT A GIRL. 1947
  
• BROKEN STRINGS. 1940
  
• THE BRONZE BUCKAROO. 1938
  
• BUBBLING OVER. 1934
  
• A BUNDLE OF BLUES. 1933
  
• BURLESQUE IN HARLEM. 1954
  
• CAB CALLOWAY & BETTY BOOP. 1932-1933
  
• CAB CALLOWAY SOUNDIES. 1942-1951
  
• CABIN IN THE SKY. 1943
  
• CALDONIA. 1945
  
• CALLOWAY BOOGIE. 1950
  
• CHARLESTON CHAIN GANG. 1902
  
• CHLOE, LOVE IS CALLING YOU. 1934
  
• COMEDY CAKE WALK. 1903
  
• CORNBREAD, EARL & ME, 1974
  
• COUNT BASIE SHORT FILMS. 1941-1951
  
• COUNT BASIE SWINGING AT HIS BEST. 2005
  
• DANCE REVELS. 1944
  
• DARK TOWN. 2004
  
• DEEP RIVER BOYS' SOUNDIES. 1941
  
• DELTA RHYTHM BOYS' SOUNDIES. 1941-1961
  
• THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER; aka, POKOMANIA. 1939
  
• DINAH WASHINGTON TELESCRIPTIONS. 1954
  
• DISPOSSESSED BLUES. 1943
  
• DIXIANA, for Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. 1930
  
• DOROTHY DANDRIDGE: AN AMERICAN BEAUTY. 2003
  
• DOROTHY DANDRIDGE: COW-COW BOOGIE. 1942
• DOROTHY DANDRIDGE: SINGING HER BEST. 2003
  
• DREAM HOUSE. 2006
  
• DUKE ELLINGTON & HIS ORCHESTRA 1929-1943. 1986
  
• DUKE ELLINGTON: THE CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD YEARS. 2004
  
• DUKE ELLINGTON: THE CENTENNIAL COLLECTION. 2004
  
• DUKE ELLINGTON SOUNDIES & TELESCRIPTIONS. 1942-1951
  
• THE DUKE IS TOPS; aka, THE BRONZE VENUS. 1938
  
• DUSTY BROOKS: SATCHEL MOUTH BABY. 1946
  
• EMPEROR JONES. 1933
  
• THE EVIL ONE. 2005
  
• FATS WALLER SOUNDIES. 1941
  
• FIGHTS OF NATIONS. 1907
  
• FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE: THE BEST OF LOUIS JORDAN & HIS TYMPANY BAND. 1991
  
• FIVE SALTED PEANUTS. 1945
  
• FRAMING OF THE SHREW. 1929
  
• FUZZY WUZZY. 1949
  
• GANG OF ROSES. 2003
  
• GANG WAR. 1940
  
• GEORGE WASHINGTON. 2000
  
• THE GREEN PASTURES. 1936
  
• THE GUNSAULUS MYSTERY. 1921, lost film
  
• HALLELUJAH. 1929
  
• HARLEM REVIEW. 1938
  
• HARLEM RIDES THE RANGE. 1939
  
• HARLEM ROOTS 1: BIG BANDS. 1988
  
• THE HAUNTED RANCH for Fred "Snowflake" Toones. 1943
  
• HENRY "CRIP" HEARD ON YOU ASKED FOR IT. 1951
  
• HI DE HO. 1934
  
• HI DE HO. 1937
  
• HI DE HO. 1947
  
• HOW TO EAT WATERMELON: BE YOURSELF. 1978
  
• IMITATION OF LIFE. 1934
  
• IMITATION OF LIFE. 1959
  
• IN CONCERT SERIES: DOROTHY DANDRIDGE. 2006
  
• THE INCOMPARABLE NAT "KING" COLE PART I. 1991, PART II. 1992
  
• INKI CARTOONS. 1939-1950
  
• INTRODUCING DOROTHY DANDRIDGE. 1999
  
• THE JACKIE ROBINSON STORY. 1950
  
• JAZZ & JIVE. 1947
  
• JAZZ CLASSICS: CAB CALLOWAY & HIS ORCHESTRA. 1987
  
• THE JAZZ FROGS CARTOONS. 1937-1938
  
• JAZZ-O-LOGY: HAMP & THE DUKE. 2004
  
• JEFFRIES-JOHNSON WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING CONTEST. 1910
  
• JIMMIE LUNCEFORD & HIS ORCHESTRA. 1936
  
• JITTERBUG PARTY. 1935
  
• THE JUBALAIRES SOUNDIES. 1945-1946
  
• JUBILEE: G.I. JOURNAL. 1942
  
• JUNE RICHMOND SOUNDIES. 1944-1946
  
• JUKE JOINT. 1947
  
• KEEP SMILING. 1943
  
• KILLER DILLER. 1948
  
• KILLJOY. 2000
  
• KILLJOY 2: DELIVERANCE FROM EVIL. 2003
  
• KING FOR A DAY. 1934
  
• KING OF THE ZOMBIES for Mantan Moreland. 1941
  
• KORLA PANDIT SNADER TELESCRIPTIONS. 1951
  
• THE LADIES SING THE BLUES. 1989
  
• THE LARKS Studio Telescriptions. 1954
  
• LAUGHING GAS. 1907
  
• LET'S SCUFFLE. 1942
  
• LIONEL HAMPTON: SWINGING AT HIS BEST. 2005
  
• LIONEL HAMPTON VIBRATORY LIVE. 2006
  
• LOOK OUT SISTER. 1946
  
• LOOSE SHOES. 1980
  
• LOUIS ARMSTRONG SOUNDIES. 1933-1942
  
• LOUIS JORDAN MEDLEY. 1946
  
• LUCKY MILLINDER SOUNDIES. 1941, 1946
  
• LYING LIPS. 1939
  
• LYNN ALBRITTON SOUNDIES. 1943
  
• MARTHA'S DAVIS TELESCRIPTIONS. 1954
  
• THE MELANCHOLY DAME. 1929
  
• MIDNIGHT SHADOW. 1939
  
• THE MILLS BROTHERS SOUNDIES. 1942-1947
  
• MISTER ADAM'S BOMB. 1949
  
• THE MONSTER WALKS for Willie Best. 1932
  
• MURDER IN HARLEM. 1935
  
• MURDER IN SWINGTIME. 1937
  
• MUSIC HATH HARMS. 1929
  
• NAT "KING" COLE: ENCORE. 2004
  
• THE NAT "KING" COLE SHOW. 1956-1957
  
• NAT "KING" COLE: SOUNDIES & TELESCRIPTIONS. 2004
  
• NAT "KING" COLE: STARDUST MEMORIES. 2004
  
• NATURAL BORN GAMBLER. 1916
  
• THE NEGRO IN ENTERTAINMENT. 1950
  
• THE NEGRO IN INDUSTRY. 1952
  
• THE NEGRO IN SPORTS. 1950
  
• NEW ORLEANS. 1947, for Louis Armstrong & Billie Holiday
  
• NOBLE SISSLE & HIS BAND FROM CIRO'S CLUB. 1930
  
• OFT IN THE SILLY NIGHT. 1929
  
• OL' KING COTTON. 1930
  
• OPEN THE DOOR, RICHARD. 1945
  
• PARADISE IN HARLEM. 1939
  
• PAUL ROBESON: A TRIBUTE TO AN ARTIST. 1979
  
• PEG LEG BATES ON THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW. 1951-1967
  
• PIE, PIE, BLACKBIRD. 1932
  
• RACE MOVIES: THE POPULAR ART OF THE BLACK RENAISSANCE. 1985
  
• RARE BLACK SHORT SUBJECTS. 1996
  
• RECORD MAKING WITH DUKE ELLINGTON & HIS ORCHESTRA. 1937
  
• RED ALLEN SOUNDIES. 1946
  
• REET, PETITE & GONE. 1946
  
• RHAPSODY IN BLACK & BLUE. 1932
  
• RHYTHM & BLUES REVIEW. 1955
  
• RHYTHM IN A RIFF. 1945
  
• RKO JAMBOREE: DUKE ELLINGTON & HIS ORCHESTRA. 1943
  
• ROCCO BLUES. 1947
  
• ROCK, ROCK ROCK! 1956
  
• RUFUS JONES FOR PRESIDENT. 1933
  
• RUTH BROWN TELESCRIPTIONS. 1954
  
• SANDERS OF THE RIVER. 1935
  
• SARAH VAUGHAN'S SNADER TELESCRIPTIONS. 1951-1952
  
• A SCRAP IN BLACK & WHITE. 1902
  
• SEPIA SWING. 1946
  
• SEPIAN STARS ON PARADE. 1947
  
• SHEREE NORTH: TIGER DANCE. 1950s
  
• SHOWTIME AT THE APOLLO: HARLEM VARIETY REVIEW. 1955
  
• SHOWTIME AT THE APOLLO: STARS OVER HARLEM. 1955
  
• SHOWTIME AT THE APOLLO: VARIETY TIME. 1955
  
• A SHRIEK IN THE NIGHT for Louise Beavers. 1933
  
• SHRUNKEN HEADS. 1994
  
• SIZZLE WITH SISSLE. 1946
  
• THE SMALL JAZZ GROUPS: THE SNADER TELESCRIPTIONS. 1950-1952
  
• THE SNADER TELESCRIPTIONS: NAT "KING" COLE. 1999
  
• THE SNADER TELESCRIPTIONS: THE SMALL JAZZ GROUPS. 1950-52
  
• SON OF INGAGI. 1940
  
• SONG OF FREEDOM. 1936
  
• SPYING THE SPY. 1918
  
• ST. LOUIS BLUES. 1929
  
• STEPPING ALONG. 1943
  
• STRANGER INSIDE. 2001
  
• STUDIO VISIT. 1946
  
• 'SUGAR CHILE' ROBINSON, BILLIE HOLIDAY, COUNT BASIE & HIS SEXTET. 1951
  
• THE SWING COLLECTION VOLUME 15. 1985
  
• SWING ERA: BILLY ECKSTINE/GENE AMMONS, RHYTHM IN A RIFF. 2000
  
• SWING ERA: CAB CALLOWAY: HI-DE-HO & OTHER MOVIES. 2004
  
• SWING ERA: COUNT BASIE. 2004
  
• SWING ERA: DUKE ELLINGTON, LIONEL HAMPTON. 2004
  
• SWING ERA: LOUIS JORDAN & HIS TYMPANY BAND: FILMS & SOUNDIES. 2003
  
• SWING ERA: SARAH VAUGHAN. 2003
  
• SYMPHONY IN BLACK: A RHAPSODY OF NEGRO LIFE. 1935
  
• TAP. 1989
  
• THE TEMPTATIONS. 1996
  
• TEN MINUTES TO LIVE. 1932
  
• THAT'S MY BABY, for Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham. 1944
  
• THAT'S THE SPIRIT. 1933
  
• THREE SONGS BY LEADBELLY; aka, NEGRO WORK SONGS. 1945
  
• TINY GRIMES' SOUNDIES. 1945
  
• TOOT THAT TRUMPET REVIEW. 1949
  
• TREASURES OF BLACK CINEMA. 2005
  
• UPTOWN: A TRIBUTE TO THE APOLLO THEATER. 1980
  
• UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; OR, SLAVERY DAYS. 1903
  
• UNFORGIVABLE BLACKNESS: THE RISE & FALL OF JACK JOHNSON. 2004
  
• URBAN MASSACRE. 2002
  
• VANITA SMYTHE SOUNDIES. 1946
  
• WATERMELON CONTEST. 1900
  
• THE WATERMELON PATCH. 1905
  
• THE WATERMELON WOMAN. 1996
  
• WHAM! 1943
  
• WHAT HAPPENED IN THE TUNNEL. 1903
  
• WILLIE THE LION. 2001
  
• THE WOMAN CONDEMNED for Louis Beavers. 1934