Juke Joint (1947)
• January 1st, 1947 • 1h 8min
Comedy, Drama
Overview
Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five cents between them. The duo arrange to become boarders at the home of Louella "Mama Lou" Holiday, who is fooled into believing Johnson is an acting teacher from Hollywood. Mrs. Holiday agrees to give the men free room and board if they will provide poise lessons to her daughter, an aspiring beauty queen named Honey Dew.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Walking Tall: Lone Justice
Released on: 2007-09-25
Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama
In Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents be...
Beauty on Parade
Released on: 1950-05-04
Drama
Marian Medford Woodstock gave up a chance twenty years ago to compete for the Miss USA beauty title ...
Sweet Home Alabama
Released on: 2002-09-26
Comedy, Romance
New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most elig...
My Cousin Vinny
Released on: 1992-03-13
Comedy, Drama
Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mis...
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Released on: 1999-07-23
Comedy
In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gl...
Forget Paris
Released on: 1995-05-19
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an ...
Dr. T & the Women
Released on: 2000-09-13
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A successful Texas gynecologist finds himself amid a bevy of women and their problems – his wife’s b...
In the Heat of the Night
Released on: 1967-08-02
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bi...
Dreamland
Released on: 2006-01-23
Drama, Romance
A young woman who lives in a desert trailer park must choose between caring for her hapless father a...
Akeelah and the Bee
Released on: 2006-04-28
Drama
11-year-old Akeelah Anderson has a way with words. After winning her schoolwide spelling bee, she de...
The Entertainer
Released on: 1960-07-25
Drama
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in ...
Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
Released on: 2024-07-04
Drama
Led by Donna and Reverend W.C. Martin, 22 families from a rural Black church in the small East Texas...
Dumplin'
Released on: 2018-12-20
Comedy, Drama
To prove a point about measuring up and fitting in, Texas teen Willowdean “Dumplin’” Dickson enters ...
Summer Hill
Released on: 2019-04-07
Drama
The teenagers of a rural community are confronted by the not-so-charming realities of their hometown...
Miss and Mrs Sweden
Released on: 1969-12-21
Comedy
To increase sales of the magazine Veckohatten, the management decides to invest heavily in the beaut...
A Time to Kill
Released on: 1996-07-24
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...
Miss Congeniality
Released on: 2000-12-22
Comedy, Crime, Action
When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quick...
Office Space
Released on: 1999-02-19
Comedy
A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of dev...
The Blind
Released on: 2023-09-28
Drama, Romance, Thriller
Long before Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson became a reality TV star, he fell in love with Miss Kay an...
Little Miss Sunshine
Released on: 2006-07-26
Comedy, Drama
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California ...