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Leadbelly
1976, May 28
2h 6m
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.
Directed by
Gordon Parks
Written by
Ernest Kinoy
Madge Sinclair
Miss Eula
Ernie Hudson
Archie (as Earnest L. Hudson)
Paul Benjamin
Wes Ledbetter
Art Evans
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Lynn Hamilton
Sally Ledbetter
Albert Hall
Dicklicker
Roger E. Mosley
Huddie Ledbetter
Alan Manson
Prison Chief Guard
James Brodhead
John Lomax
John Henry Faulk
Gov. Pat Neff
William Wintersole
Sheriff Gibbons
Rhetta Greene
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