{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = Sunday Sinners | image = Sunsinpos.jpg | caption = Original film poster | writer = Vincent Valentini <br>Frank H. Wilson (story) | starring = Norman Astwood<br>Edna Mae Harris<br>Earl Sydnor | director = Arthur Dreifuss | producer = Jack Goldberg | studio = Colonnade Pictures Corporation<br>Arthur Dreifuss Productions<br>Goldberg Productions | released = {{Film date|1940}} | runtime = 65 min | country = United States | language = English | budget = }} '''''Sunday Sinners''''' is a 1940 drama, comedy, musical and religious race film directed by and co-produced by Arthur Dreifuss and Jack Goldberg starring his wife Mamie Smith, Norman Astwood, Edna Mae Harris and Earl Sydnor.<ref>{{cite book |author=Balio, Tino |title=Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939 |publisher=University of California Press |year=1995|page=347 |isbn=9780520203341}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Lupack|first=Barbara|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rww9DAAAQBAJ|title=Early Race Filmmaking in America|date=2016-05-26|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-43424-5|pages=211|language=en}}</ref>
==Plot== The Club Harlem is jointly owned by Gene and Corrine Aiken who disagree on the matter of the Club being open on Sunday. Rev. Jesse Hampton is receiving pressure from his parishioners to demand the club be closed on Sunday. Other plots include a protection racket pressuring Gene Aiken, two con men attempting to cheat a Chinese laundryman, and the son of the Reverend getting a job at the Club Harlem.
==Cast== * Norman Astwood as Gene Aiken *Edna Mae Harris as Corrine Aiken<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Berry|first=S. Torriano|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8NJbCQAAQBAJ|title=Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema|last2=Berry|first2=Venise T.|date=2015-05-07|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-4422-4702-4|pages=203, 404|language=en}}</ref> * Earl Sydnor as Reverend Jesse Hampton<ref name=":0" /> *Mamie Smith as Midge<ref name=":1" /> * Alec Lovejoy as Eli * Cristola Williams as Creola * Thelma Norton as Peggy Hampton * Harold Norton as Earl Williams * Augustus Smith as The Deacon *Sidney Easton as Bootsie
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==External links== * {{IMDb title | id=033115 | title=Sunday Sinners}}
Category:1940 films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Race films Category:Films about Christianity Category:American drama films Category:1940 drama films Category:Films directed by Arthur Dreifuss Category:1940 English-language films Category:1940 American films Category:English-language drama films