Way Down South (1939)

Stars: Bobby Breen, Clarence Muse, Ralph Morgan
Directors: Leslie Goodwins, Bernard Vorhaus
Writers: Clarence Muse, Langston Hughes

In pre-Civil War Louisiana, a young orphan inherits a plantation with well-cared for slaves, but a mean-spirited executor plots to sell off the estate and flee to Paris with the proceeds. Released the same year as Gone with the Wind.