Lying Lips is a 1939 American melodrama race film written and directed by Oscar Micheaux who co-produced the film with aviator Hubert Fauntlenroy Julian, starring Edna Mae Harris, and Robert Earl Jones (the father of James Earl Jones).

[2] Elsie, a popular nightclub singer, refuses to go out with the customers at the request of the white owner of the club.

John and Clyde testify that they saw Elsie on the night of the murder leaving the club for a short time and later returning.

Mrs. Green, the sister of Clyde and John, tells the police that Elsie bought a large life insurance policy on her aunt, with herself as the beneficiary.

The husband, after realizing the trick, ran north, but Mrs. Green pursued him, and her two brothers threatened him to get back together with her.

The note stated that, out of despair, he had decided to kill Elsie's aunt and then take his own life by jumping off a bridge into the river.