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Born for Hard Luck: Peg Leg Sam Jackson (1976)
Directed by Tom Davenport
Documentary, Music · 29m
A portrait of Arthur "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson --black harmonica player, singer, and comedian who made his living "busking" on the street and performing in patent-medicine shows touring southern towns. Footage includes excerpts from one of his last medicine shows, videotaped at a county fair in 1972, and material filmed near his home in South Carolina in 1975. The performance includes harmonica solos, songs, a parody of a chanted sermon, folktales and reminiscences, and three buck dances.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Tom Davenport
- Editor
- Louise B. Steig
- Producer
- Tom Davenport, Daniel W. Patterson, Allen Tullos
Details
- Release date
- 1976-01-01
- Runtime
- 29m
- Genres
- Documentary, Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Davenport Films