Body and Soul was Paul Robeson's film debut, and it's an intriguing film, especially because Robeson plays this awful swindler-rapist-murderer pastor, who really destroys the family at the center of the movie. Robeson is wonderfully dynamic, of course, and the film has some exciting action in it. I also loved the ending (one Oscar Micheaux was apparently forced to make by the censors), in which the main character fantasizes about what might have happened if she'd made better decisions.
