27 Sep 2007
Leroy
A gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Berlin teen named Leroy who rediscovers his roots after falling for a pretty white girl and meeting her racist family.
The Tomboy
Miss Devore plays Tommy, a young woman who runs a boarding house for her father, an inventor of eccentric devices, and the boarders are the usual collection of neurotics in such an effort.
Top Billed Cast
Herbert Rawlinson Aldon Farwell
Dorothy Devore Tommy Smith
James O. Barrows Henry Smith
Lee Moran Hiram - the Sheriff
Helen Lynch Sweetie Higgins
Lottie Williams Mrs. Higgins
Harry Gribbon Rugby Blood
Virginia True Boardman Mrs. Smith
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