| Of One Blood | |
| Director: | Spencer Williams |
| Producer: | H. W. Kier |
| Screenplay: | Spencer Williams |
| Studio: | Sack Amusement Enterprises |
| Distributor: | Sack Attractions |
| Runtime: | 61 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Of One Blood is a 1944 American race film directed, written by and starring Spencer Williams. The film focuses on two orphaned African American brothers who grow up to become a lawyer and a police officer, and who work together to break up a crime ring run by a miscreant who turns out to be their long-lost oldest brother.
Like many race films, all of Williams' works were thought to have been lost.[1] [2]
At the time, films were printed on nitrate film, which is highly flammable and liable to decompose, and only a few prints of Williams' films were made due to their low budget. However, most of his 1940s films have been rediscovered; many were found in a Tyler, Texas warehouse by film historian G. William Jones in 1983, alongside a number of independent exploitation films and prints of popular Hollywood films from the 1930s and 40s. Williams' works recovered in the collection were restored and now held at Southern Methodist University (SMU) as the Tyler, Texas, Black Film Collection.[3] [4]
Of One Blood was one of few films of Williams' not found in the Collection. However, a copy has been preserved in a different SMU collection, and another at the Library of Congress.[5] [6]