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Chloe, Love is Calling You (1934)
Topic Started: Nov 27 2015, 08:04 AM (231 Views)
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Chloe, Love is Calling You (1934) Dir. Marshall Neilan

In the jungles around a whiskey plantation (!) in the Indies, Olive Borden, light-skinned daughter of a Voodoo Queen, is promised to a strapping young Black man but secretly longs for the caress of white men, a yearning she can't understand but as it turns out, she was kidnapped from her crib as an infant by the Queen, who has raised her as her own - she's REALLY the daughter of the plantation's aged (and terribly Caucasian) Confederate Colonel. So the Black dudes want to kill her (or worse), the Voodoo Queen wreaks havoc with her magical spells, and plantation foreman Reed Howes, delighted to discover she's a honky, wants her for his very own, but in a pure, chaste way, seemingly.

Million-dollar Dialog:
Voodoo Queen Curse: "The THUNDER's gonna howl, the LIGHTNIN's gonna rain, the DEVIL'S gonna walk on a white man's grave!"

Our heroine, getting advice from her Negro fiance (who's played by a white dude): "You think because there's WHITE blood in you a white man would have you! Well, he'd HAVE you all right, but he wouldn't MARRY you!"

Catty Plantation Women: "I wonder if she's REALLY the lost Betty Ann." "I don't know. She's so DARK."

Needless to say, the most entertaining film I've seen in years. It's available from Alpha. The film was re-released several times, always as a horror chiller, playing up the voodoo angle, and frankly, the Voodoo Queen is VERY impressive dressed up in a tux and top hat for the big Virgin Sacrifice. There's also an All-Negro Jug Band, movingly portrayed by the Shreveport Home Wreckers.

Not to be missed, folks, not to be missed.
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OK, where do I find it?
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I second that question.


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