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Leadbelly (1976)

ALL 05/28/1976 (en) Drama 126 Min
  • Release
    05/28/1976
  • Production
    David Paradine Productions, Paramount Pictures
  • Rotten tomato
    62%
  • Original title
    Leadbelly
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

You can't bury a black legend like Leadbelly!

Overview

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.

  1. Gordon Parks

    Director

  2. Story



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  1. Roger E. Mosley

    Huddie Ledbetter

  2. Paul Benjamin

    Wes Ledbetter

  3. Madge Sinclair

    Miss Eula

  4. Alan Manson

    Prison Chief Guard

  5. Albert Hall

    Dicklicker

  6. Art Evans

    Blind Lemon Jefferson

  7. James Brodhead

    John Lomax

  8. John Henry Faulk

    Gov. Pat Neff

  9. Lynn Hamilton

    Sally Ledbetter

  10. Ernie Hudson

    Archie (as Earnest L. Hudson)

  11. William Wintersole

    Sheriff Gibbons

  12. Rhetta Greene

    Lethe

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 12 , Crews : 10

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Leadbelly (1976) 126 Min

ALL 05/28/1976 (en)
Drama
  • Release 05/28/1976
  • Production
    David Paradine Productions, Paramount Pictures
  • Original title Leadbelly
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

You can't bury a black legend like Leadbelly!

Overview

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.

  1. Gordon Parks

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Moe Howard, Thomas Penick

    Editor

  4. Marc Merson, David Frost

    Producer



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