This is a film unlike anything I had seen before, in the sense of it being the oldest film I have seen with an entirely African American cast playing in a story that is not about race at all. Everyone feels like real people and that is attributed to the way Richard E. Norman shoots his films by going to various towns with stock footage and a basic script, recruiting local celebrities for minor roles, filming a small portion of footage over the course of a few days, then any funds raised would be split between Norman and the town where the scenes were shot. It’s so indie and feels like the world of shooting a film in college on the cheap. Kathryn Boyd who played Ruth and Steve Reynolds as Peg were the standouts in the cast. For all the things the film does really well, it relies heavily on its intertitle cards., which becomes a lot I find silent films that can work with the fewer amount of title cards, the better the film flows as it helps to keep the momentum up.
