The black audience filmwent out of style in the 1950s-when Hollywood took up the "problemfilm"-so the 1949 Souls of Sin, produced by the prolific blackindependent producer William Alexander, offers one of the last suchportraits of black life of the times. Set in Harlem, it tells of atalented and hard-working guitarist from Alabama, played by WilliamGreaves, who rents a room with a gambler, "Dollar Bill" Burton(Jimmy Wright), and a burned-out writer, Roberts (Emory Richardson). Theglamorous singer Savannah Churchill plays Regina, who introduced in thisfilm her hit "The Things You Do To Me." (Director PowellLindsay takes the role of the villain, Bad Boy George.) Rediscoveredblack cinema treasures like The Scar of Shame and Souls of Sin, boththought to have been lost films, have helped to renew both interest andscholarship in this "missing link" in American film history.