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A Man's Duty was a 1919 Lincoln Motion Picture Company film. It starred Clarence A. Brooks. It was advertised as featuring an "All Colored Cast". The film's story is about rivals fighting over a woman. Harry A. Gant directed.
Brooks debuted in the film company's first film, the 1916 short The Realization of a Negro's Ambition. He served as Secretary of the Lafayette Players. A Man's Duty was made after George Perry Johnson left the struggling film production company that endured loss of business due to World War I and Spanish flu.
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- Brooks, Clarence (May 5, 1919). "A Man's Duty" – via memory.loc.gov.
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- "Brothers Became Film Pioneers". Los Angeles Times. September 13, 1998.