---
title: 'The Exile (1931)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Oscar Micheaux'
released: '1931-01-01'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-exile-1931'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021844/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Exile (1931)

1931 · Drama · United States


## Synopsis

The Exile is a 1931 American pre-Code film directed by Oscar Micheaux with choreography by Leonard Harper. A drama-romance of the race film genre, The Exile was Micheaux's first feature-length sound film, and the first African-American sound film. Adapted from Micheaux's first novel The Conquest (1913), it the film shares some autobiographical elements; for example, Micheaux spent several years as a cattle rancher in an otherwise all-white area of South Dakota as does the film's central character Jean Baptiste.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Oscar Micheaux](https://cinepixo.com/people/oscar-micheaux)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Donald Heywood](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-heywood)

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