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Freedom Road (1979)

ALL 10/29/1979 (en) Drama 186 Min
  • Release
    10/29/1979
  • Production
    Braun Entertainment Group, Worldvision
  • Rotten tomato
    48%
  • Original title
    Freedom Road
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.

  1. Ján Kadár

    Director

  2. Story



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  1. Muhammad Ali

    Gideon Jackson

  2. Kris Kristofferson

    Abner Lait

  3. Ron O'Neal

    Francis Cardoza

  4. Edward Herrmann

    Stephen Holmes

  5. John McLiam

    President Ulysses S. Grant

  6. Ossie Davis

    Narrator

  7. Barbara O. Jones

    Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)

  8. Sonny Jim Gaines

    Brother Peter

  9. Joel Fluellen

    James Allenby

  10. Jean Foster

    Ellen Allenby

  11. Grace Zabriskie

    Ruth Lait

  12. Bill Mackey

    Trooper

  13. Earl D.A. Smith

    Hannibal

  14. Alfre Woodard

    Katie

  15. Fred Covington

    Sheriff Bentley

  16. Sonny Shroyer

    Jason Hugar

  17. Ernest Dixon

    Marion Jefferson

  18. Sylvia Kuumba Williams

    Louise Jefferson

  19. Tom Delaney

    Will Boone

  20. Ron Gural

    Frank Carlson

  21. William Allen Young

    Older Jeff Jackson

  22. Tony Ross

    Young Jeff Jackson

  23. Eric Washington

    Older Marcus Jackson

  24. Rodney King Adams

    Young Marcus Jackson

  25. Howard Brunner

    Lawyer Greene

  26. Howland Chamberlain

    Isaac Went

  27. Georgia Allen

    Mrs. Carter

  28. James Bowman

    1st White Trash Delegate

  29. Don Brady

    2nd White Trash Delegate

  30. Robert Bloodworth

    Major at Convention

  31. Barbara Chaney

    Mrs. Ganfret

  32. Stuart Culpepper

    Major Walsh

  33. Lionel Ferbis Jr.

    Uncle Baddy

  34. Peter Gabb

    3rd White Trash Delegate

  35. Ian Graham

    Jimmy Lait

  36. Jerome Greene

    Black Delegate

  37. Bill Holliday

    Yankee Boss

  38. Don Hood

    Gen. Ganfret

  39. Maurice Hunt

    Dudley Carwell

  40. Don Lutenbacher

    Convention Speaker

  41. Ritchie Montgomery

    Soldier

  42. Danny Nelson

    Auctioneer

  43. Afemo Omilami

    Young Black Man with Scars

  44. Courtney Pledger

    Mrs. Dupre

  45. David Robbins

    Wounded Redshirt

  46. Jeremiah Shabazz

    Well-Dressed Black Delegate

  47. Gregory White

    Clair Willis

  48. Bob Zay

    Roger Dupre

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 48 , Crews : 15

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Freedom Road (1979) 186 Min

ALL 10/29/1979 (en)
Drama
  • Release 10/29/1979
  • Production
    Braun Entertainment Group, Worldvision
  • Original title Freedom Road
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.

  1. Ján Kadár

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Anne Goursaud, George Folsey Jr.

    Editor

  4. Leland Nolan, Chet Walker

    Producer



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