Body and Soul

Plot

A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to ruin.

  • Oscar Micheaux

    Director

  • Oscar Micheaux

    Screenplay

  • Paul Robeson

    Reverend Isaiah T. Jenkins / His brother Sylvester

  • Mercedes Gilbert

    Sister Martha

  • Julia Theresa Russell

    Isabelle

  • Marshall Rogers

    Speakeasy Proprietor

  • Lawrence Chenault

    Yello-Curley' Hinds - the Phony Reverend's Former Jailmate

  • Chester A. Alexander

    Deacon Simpkins - a Church Elder

  • Walter Cornick

    Brother Amos - a Church Elder

  • Runtime

    93 minutes

    Released

    1925-11-09

    Languages

    No Language

    Countries

    United States of America

    Studios

    Micheaux Picture Corporation

    Updated

    430 days ago

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