The Blood of Jesus (1941) on Netflix
Ras Jackson, an atheist, is out hunting while his Baptist wife Martha is baptized at the riverside. His rifle falls and fires, and an angel takes her spirit to the crossroads.
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Plot summary
A church congregation holds a riverside baptism, and among the faithful immersed is Sister Martha Ann Jackson, three months married to Ras Jackson. Sister Ellerby and Sister Jenkins agree that because of her husband's wayward behavior Martha is not ready for religion. Ras misses the service and comes home from a hunting trip, admitting that the hog he killed belonged to a neighbor. He prays with his wife, then puts his rifle down; it drops and fires, and the bullet strikes Martha. As the congregation prays at her bedside, an angel comes for her spirit and leads her to a silent graveyard of those whose lives were ended by others' sins, then onward to the crossroads of life and death. Judas Green, an agent of Satan, comes to tempt her.
Cast
- Cathryn Cavinessas Sister Martha Ann Jackson
- Juanita Rileyas Sister Jenkins
- Reather Hardemanas Sister Ellerby
- Rogenia Goldthwaiteas The Angel
- James B. Jonesas Satan(Jas. B. Jones)
- Frank H. McClennanas JudGreen
- Eddie DeBaseas Rufus Brown(Eddie De Base)
- Alva Fulleras Luke Williams
- R.L. Robertsonas Rev. R.L. Robertson(Rev. R.L. Robertson)
- The Heavenly Choiras The Heavenly Choir
- Black Aceas Slide Guitarist(uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Blood of Jesus (1941)
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- In 1991, The Blood of Jesus became the first race film to be added to the U.S. National Film Registry.
- To present the afterlife, Spencer Williams used scenes from L'Inferno, a 1911 Italian film showing souls entering Heaven.
- The Blood of Jesus was long considered a lost film until prints were found in the mid-1980s in a warehouse in Tyler, Texas.
- Filmmaker Julie Dash said the baptismal sequence in The Blood of Jesus inspired a similar scene in her 1991 film Daughters of the Dust.
