{"id":30707,"date":"2022-10-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30707"},"modified":"2022-10-08T11:53:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T15:53:39","slug":"harlem-on-the-prairie-1937-starring-herb-jeffries-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30707","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Harlem on the Prairie&#8221; (1937) Starring Herb Jeffries \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102222zview_harlem_otp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"745\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Harlem on the Prairie <\/strong><\/em>(1937)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Sam Newfield, Jed Buell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Fred Myton, F.E. Miller <\/strong>(additional dialogue)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Herb Jeffries<\/strong><strong>, F.E. Miller, Mantan Moreland, Consuelo Harris, Maceo Bruce Sheffield<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong> Spencer Williams<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: \u00a0<em>KING OF THE JUKE BOX AND RADIO NOW SEEN IN FULL FEATURE!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jeff Kincaid (Jeffries) is riding to the next town when he comes across Doc Clayburn&#8217;s (Williams) medicine show.\u00a0 Kincaid joins them for dinner and a few songs.\u00a0 Kincaid and Clayburn&#8217;s daughter, Connie (Harris) are obviously attracted to each other.\u00a0 What no one knows is that outlaws have their eye on Clayburn.\u00a0 Years ago, Clayburn ran with a group of bank robbers.\u00a0 Clayburn was the only one who wasn&#8217;t killed and the outlaws want the gold he has hidden.\u00a0 After some more songs and comedy from Crawfish (Miller) and Mistletoe (Moreland) things will come to gunplay when the outlaws attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Herb Jeffries was a popular singing radio star who decided to try acting.\u00a0 Jeffries wanted to play a black singing cowboy leading man along the lines of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry.\u00a0 <em>Harlem on the Prairie<\/em> is played straight (with some comedic moments) just like a Rogers or Autry film.\u00a0 Jeffries riding a beautiful white stallion makes a serviceable lead.\u00a0 Spencer Williams has great facial expressions telling more of his story without a word.\u00a0 Mantan Moreland and F.E. (Flournoy Eakin) Miller provide comedy relief.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a fan of singing cowboy films, then give <em>Harlem on the Prairie<\/em> a shot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Harlem on the Prairie <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102222zview_harlem_otp2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harlem on the Prairie (1937) Director:\u00a0 Sam Newfield, Jed Buell Screenplay:\u00a0 Fred Myton, F.E. Miller (additional dialogue) Stars:\u00a0 Herb Jeffries,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63,54,64,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-music","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30708,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30707\/revisions\/30708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}