A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Wages of Sin
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Oscar Micheaux

Cast: Lorenzo Tucker [Winston Le Jeune], William A. Clayton Jr. [Jefferson Lee Le Jeune], Rudolph Hind, Alice B. Russell, William Baker, Sylvia Birdsong, Bessie Gibbens (Bessie Givens), Katherine Noisette, Ethel Smith, Gertrude Snelson, [?] Ione McCarthy?, [?] Ethel Moses?

Micheaux Film Corporation production; distributed on State Rights basis by Micheaux Film Corporation. / Produced by Oscar Micheaux. Scenario by Oscar Micheaux, from the short story “Alias Jefferson Lee” by Oscar Micheaux. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Tucker’s film debut. Smith’s last film. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Keywords: African-Americans - Cowardice - Death - Families: Brothers, Sisters - Funerals - Race film

Listing updated: 26 June 2023.

References: Null-Black pp. 9, 41 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.