'Slick' Chester

An undercover government agent on a case in Mississipi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss. He rescues the girl, and they leave Mississippi and head to Harlem, but their troubles follow them: they become involved in the murder of a local crime boss there.

A young college student falls under the influence of a murderous gambler.

Gangsters in Harlem make plans to commit a kidnapping.

Helen Ware, an artist's model, known as the Brown Venus is sad, discouraged and unhappy. When her men friends learn that she often poses nude, they try to become unduly "friendly" or just shun her, with the result that a beautiful girl with the figure of a Goddess finds herself without a lover. In desperation, she goes to a notorious night club and is later seen about to start on the downward trail. In New York's Harlem section, gangdom is running riot.

Julie Weston and her aunt, Hattie, own and operate a candy-store in Harlem. A wealthy business man, Albert Marshall, and his wayward son, Jim Marshall, swindle the women out of the store. Later, Albert Marshall is found murdered, and there are several suspects, including Marshall's secretary and a blackmailer.

Harlem Is Heaven is one of the many low-budget 1930s films designed to cater to the "all-colored" trade. The fabulous Bill "Bojangles" Robinson stars as the owner of a Harlem variety theater, who for the sake of his sweetie, dancer Jean Stratton (Anise Boyer), sets up his own nightclub. When he finds out that Jean is actually in love with young Chummy Walker (Henri Wassell), Bojangles gallantly steps out of the picture. (imdb)