Paul Robeson considered this film one of his most positive accomplishments in projecting a screen image of a Black man with courage, honor, self-sacrifice, and intelligence who achieves success and happiness.
The 1937 British original release title for this film is Jericho; when it was released in the U.S., the title was changed to Dark Sands.
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #372.
This film was first telecast on New York City's pioneer television station W2XBS Wednesday 5 June 1940. It is one of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in Motion Picture Herald 4 April 1942. At this time, television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost totally curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-1946. Its earliest documented Post-WWII telecasts took place in New York City Wednesday 27 April 1949 on WPIX (Channel 11) and in Fort Worth Sunday 14 August 1949 on WBAP (Channel 5).
Final film of Eslanda Robeson.