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Chloe (Olive Borden) has escaped the swamps where she was raised and her family, including her mother Mandy (Georgette Harvey). Thanks to the light color of her skin, she’s passed for a white person. She’s in love with Wade (Reed Howes), who works for Colonel Gordon (Francis Joyner). The problem comes when her mother keeps bringing up — the swamps aren’t all that far — that Gordon led the lynch mob who hung her father.

This all leads to the wild truth that Chloe is really Gordon’s daughter and that he never ordered Sam’s death. Mandy takes her into the swamps and is ready to kill her as part of a voodoo ritual when she’s saved by Wade, who is really saved by Jim (Phillip Ober), a black man in love with Chloe, so romantically driven that he fights an alligator for her and then dies to save both her and her white man. Because Chloe is really white and man, this movie is really racist. It’s a tale of a black girl who hopes and dreams that she is white, that wish comes true and then her black mom tries to kill her while a black man sacrifices his life to save her and a white man. Then, she moves into a mansion.

The voodoo scenes look really scary, however.

Chloe was one of three films — along with Hired Wife and Playthings of Desire — that were made at Sun Haven Studios in St. Petersburg, Florida. The goal was to take back Florida as a filmmaking destination from Hollywood.

You can watch this on Tubi.