Cabin in the Sky (1943) (MOD) "Bowtruckle"

Cabin in the Sky (1943) (MOD) "Bowtruckle"Hollywood's first all black film since The Green Pastures tells the vibrant fable of rascally Little Joe, torn between the love of his good wife Petunia and the wiles of good time bad girl Georgia Brown and caught in a tug of war between emissaries from the Lord and Satan. How can virtue triumph over evil? Well, as Petunia says, "Sometimes when you fight the devil, you gotta jab him with his own pitchfork." Debuting movie director Vincente Minnelli

With lots of spiffy patter and a colorful array of underworld types

Measures about 24-inches in diameter

clears a family friend accused of murder (Nancy Drew - Trouble Shooter) and faces death in a secret tunnel (Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase)

family bulldog Bandit

"If you want to be really refined

Also featuring appearances by Western favorites Jack Elam (Rio Lobo) and Royal Dano (Johnny Guitar)

and Billy Gray

Lee Grant and Bradford Dillman

each hoping for that one big break that will propel them to baseball stardom

But as the couple elopes off to sea

they must defeat evil warlord Garmadon (Justin Theroux)

lightning wit and knack for creating memorable characters on stage and screen