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Leadbelly (1976)
Directed by Gordon Parks
“You can't bury a black legend like Leadbelly!”
Drama · 2h 06m
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.
Cast
Roger E. Mosley
Huddie Ledbetter
J
James Brodhead
John Lomax
J
John McDonald
Tom Pruitt
L
Leonard Wrentz
Guard
Ernie Hudson
Archie
D
Dana Manno
Margaret Judd
W
William Wintersole
Sheriff Gibbons
Paul Benjamin
Wes Ledbetter
Lynn Hamilton
Sally Ledbetter
Carole Lamond
Laura May
M
Melba Englander
Evaline
P
Pamela Singleton
Fat Bessie
Crew
- Director
- Gordon Parks
- Writer
- Ernest Kinoy
- Director of Photography
- Bruce Surtees
- Original Music Composer
- Fred Karlin
- Editor
- Moe Howard
- Producer
- Marc Merson
Details
- Release date
- 1976-05-28
- Runtime
- 2h 06m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- David Paradine Productions, Brownstone Productions, Zeeuwse Maatschappij N.V.