The Exile (1931 film)
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| Directed by | Oscar Micheaux |
| Screenplay by | Oscar Micheaux |
| Based on | The Conquest 1931 novel by Oscar Micheaux |
| Produced by | Oscar Micheaux Frank Schiffman |
| Starring | Eunice Brooks Stanley Morrell Celeste Cole |
| Cinematography | Lester Lang Walter Strenge |
| Music by | Donald Heywood |
| Color process | Black-and-white |
Production company | Micheaux Film |
| Distributed by | Micheaux Film |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Exile is a 1931 American pre-Code film directed by Oscar Micheaux with choreography by Leonard Harper. A drama-romance of the race film genre, The Exile was Micheaux's first feature-length sound film, and the first African-American sound film. Adapted from Micheaux's first novel The Conquest (1913), it the film shares some autobiographical elements; for example, Micheaux spent several years as a cattle rancher in an otherwise all-white area of South Dakota as does the film's central character Jean Baptiste (played by Stanley Morrell).