A white man disguises himself as a black man in order to get a job in the city shining shoes. He later travels out west, and gets mixed up with a gold mine and claim-jumpers.
Is Mine Your Business! worth watching today? Short answer: Yes, but with significant caveats and a strong stomach for historical context. This film is a challenging, often uncomfortable, artifact that offers a peculiar lens into early 20th-century American cinema, particularly its deeply problematic racial depictions a...
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John Tansey
Maurice Campbell
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"Is Mine Your Business! worth watching today? Short answer: Yes, but with significant caveats and a strong stomach for historical context. This film is a challenging, often uncomfortable, artifact that offers a peculiar lens into early 20th-century American cinema, particularly its deeply problematic racial depictions and nascent Western tropes. It is absolutely for film historians, scholars of early American cinema, and viewers interested in the evolution of racial representation (or misrepresen..."
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John Tansey
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1920 · IMDb —
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