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Leadbelly

You can't bury a black legend like Leadbelly!

6.4 average rating
★★★★★
6.4
English / 126 MIN. / 1976

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Roger E. MosleyJames BrodheadJohn McDonaldLeonard WrentzErnie HudsonDana MannoWilliam WintersolePaul BenjaminLynn HamiltonCarole LamondMelba EnglanderPamela SingletonRozaa JeanNat WilliamsMadge SinclairGeorge WilliamsTimothy PickardRhetta GreeneArt EvansWilliam CreamerDearl CroftJohn C. JohnsonBill WoodardRobert C. FarrowAlbert HallPeter HarrellB.T. HendersonDenny ArnoldJames TaylorVivian BonnellAlan MansonJohn Henry FaulkValerie OdellDrew ThomasJohn KeithHitide Harris

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