Leadbelly
Visit website6.2/10 • 6
1976-05-28 • 2h 6m
You can't bury a black legend like Leadbelly!
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.
- Directors
- Gordon Parks
- Writters
- Ernest Kinoy
- Editors
- Ernest Kinoy, Thomas Penick
Leadbelly
Visit website1976-05-28 • 2h 6m
6.2/10 • 6
You can't bury a black legend like Leadbelly!
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.
- Directors
- Gordon Parks
- Writters
- Ernest Kinoy
- Editors
- Ernest Kinoy, Thomas Penick
Top Billed Cast
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Roger E. Mosley
Huddie Ledbetter
Paul Benjamin
Wes Ledbetter
Madge Sinclair
Miss Eula
Alan Manson
Prison Chief Guard
Albert Hall
Dicklicker
Art Evans
Blind Lemon Jefferson
James Brodhead
John Lomax
John Henry Faulk
Gov. Pat Neff
Lynn Hamilton
Sally Ledbetter
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