Details
- Release: Mar 24 1943
- Runtime: 98 min
- Language: English
- Budget: $662,141
- Revenue: $1,606,624
Overview
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do right by his devout wife, Petunia, while an angel known as the General and the devil's son, Lucifer Jr., fight for his soul.
Credits
Lena Horne
Georgia Brown
Louis Armstrong
The Trumpeter
Rex Ingram
Lucius / Lucifer Jr.
Juanita Moore
Nightclub Patron / Churchgoer (uncredited)
Juano Hernández
Neighbor (uncredited)
Joel Fluellen
Mr. Kelso / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited)
Willie Best
Second Idea Man
Mantan Moreland
First Idea Man
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington (uncredited)
Ruby Dandridge
Mrs. Kelso
Ethel Waters
Petunia Jackson
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson
Nick Stewart
Dude
Clinton Rosemond
Doctor (uncredited)
Butterfly McQueen
Lily
Bobby Johnson
Specialty Dancer in Hell Sequence (uncredited)
William Gillespie
Soloist in 'Little Black Sheep' (uncredited)
Vivian Dandridge
Dancer / Jim Henry's Paradise Patron (uncredited)
Amanda Randolph
Churchgoer (uncredited)
Ernest Whitman
Jim Henry