Blood of Jesus

With promotion of the producer Alfred N. Sack, and first-time writer and director Spencer Williams employing biblical language narrating over an African American baptism ceremony shot on location in rural Texas, the opening of the landmark “race” film, The Blood Of Jesus, 1941.

Martha Ann (Cathryn Caviness), escorted from what may be her death bed by an angel (Rogenia Goldthwaite), is offered options, the first put forward by satan (James B. Jones) and his cohort Judas Green (Frank H. McClennan), in writer-director Spencer Williams' first feature, The Blood Of Jesus, 1941.

Martha Ann (Cathryn Caviness) on the afternoon of her baptism, speaks to her husband Ras (writer and director Spencer Williams) about his lack of interest in religion, concerned that he may have shot a neighbor’s game on his hunting trip, a key moment in the “race” film The Blood Of Jesus, 1941.