Leadbelly

Leadbelly (1976)

You can't bury a black legend like Leadbelly!

  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1976-05-28
  • User Rating: 6.167/10 from 6 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 6min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Brownstone Productions
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Gordon Parks
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Summary

The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.

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  • Roger E. Mosley

    as Huddie Ledbetter

  • Paul Benjamin

    as Wes Ledbetter

  • Madge Sinclair

    as Miss Eula

  • Alan Manson

    as Prison Chief Guard

  • Albert Hall

    as Dicklicker

  • Art Evans

    as Blind Lemon Jefferson

  • James Brodhead

    as John Lomax

  • John Henry Faulk

    as Gov. Pat Neff

  • Lynn Hamilton

    as Sally Ledbetter

  • Ernie Hudson

    as Archie (as Earnest L. Hudson)

  • William Wintersole

    as Sheriff Gibbons

  • Rhetta Greene

    as Lethe
Directing Gordon Parks Director
Writing Ernest Kinoy Writer
Production Marc Merson Producer
Editing Moe Howard Editor
Editing Thomas Penick Editor
Art Robert F. Boyle Production Design
Art John A. Kuri Set Decoration
Camera Bruce Surtees Director of Photography
Sound Fred Karlin Original Music Composer

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