in the 1920s and 30 and 40 and black movie goer be usually not allow in white movie theater here in the united state . in addition and theater cater to black audience have difficulty get first run film and black audience really do not feel much connection to the all white film hollywood be produce . a a result and small black own movie company spring up and try to fill this void . the problem be that these company be operate on shoestring budget and they simply couldn not afford to make polished and high quality film . some of them turn out pretty good and but in general these film be pretty dreadful and what more could you expect consider that 99 % of all the money go to make hollywood film . because of this context and you need to understand that with so many strike against this film and it a wonder it even achieve a score of 3 ( and perhaps my 3 be be a tad generous ) . the film be a black version of a typical gene autry film but star a cast of less experienced actor and lack incidental music and a good foley artist ( a lot of the action have no sound effect or they be severely muffle ) and experienced writer and director . this be purely a 3rd string group of film maker and i be sure they be try their best and but the lack of professionalism show . all too often and actor just stand around or utter their line with no emotion or conviction because they almost universally lacked experience and training . a for the film star and herb jeffries and he wasn not too bad . his sing wasn not bad but he certainly lack charisma . it no surprise and then and that this mark the last of jeffries cowboy film be the fifth in a series of very inconsequential low budget western . the plot and if anyone really care and be about a hidden radium mine and some baddie attempt to steal it from it rightful owner . the problem i saw with that be that radium occur only in trace amount in uranium and must be process and refine to collect radium . so why do not they call it a uranium mine instead . after all and you do not mine pure radium . but this be also not particularly important nor be the film unless you be watch it for historical purpose or if you be curious to see the most famous black singing cowboy . also and one final note . this be package on a dvd along with murder in harlem by alpha video one of the bad dvd producer on the planet . most of their video be fuzzy and tough to watch and this film be certainly no exception . however and alpha also specialize in some public domain and hard to find film where there simply aren not good copy available and it doesn not make financial sense to properly restore the film . like em or not and if you want to see this film and alpha be probably your only source .