Warner Bros.
Starring: Rex Ingram, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Oscar Polk
Directed by: Marc Connelly, William Keighley

Synopsis: Based on a popular stage play of the time, this film offers up recreations of stories from the Old Testament as imagined by a group of rural children attending Sunday school.

Purr Blur: We’ll leave other blogs to debate about the political incorrectness of this film, seeing as how the Bible is being interpreted by rural black American children.  Our concerns are strictly with the cats, who can barely be seen in the segment in which Noah (Eddie Anderson) is directing the animals as they are loaded onto the ark.  The cages of the animals are marked in alphabetical order and the cats appear on a cart with the aardvarks and the alligators, having been marked “Alli Cats” (another mark against the film as many would deduce it implies illiteracy).  The cats can barely be seen within the cage.

Final Mewsings: Even the cats were uncomfortable about appearing in this film.

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