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Leadbelly

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Calorie Rating: 177
Released: 1976-05-28
MPAA Rating: PG
Running Time: 126 Minutes
Studios: David Paradine Productions, Paramount Pictures,


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.

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Cast

Roger E. Mosley
Character: Huddie Ledbetter
Paul Benjamin
Character: Wes Ledbetter
Madge Sinclair
Character: Miss Eula

Alan Manson
Character: Prison Chief Guard
Albert Hall
Character: Dicklicker
Art Evans
Character: Blind Lemon Jefferson

James Brodhead
Character: John Lomax
John Henry Faulk
Character: Gov. Pat Neff
Lynn Hamilton
Character: Sally Ledbetter

Ernie Hudson
Character: Archie (as Earnest L. Hudson)
William Wintersole
Character: Sheriff Gibbons
Rhetta Greene
Character: Lethe


Production and Crew

Bruce Surtees
Director of Photography
Fred Karlin
Original Music Composer

Robert F. Boyle
Production Design
Marc Merson
Producer

John A. Kuri
Set Decoration
David Frost
Producer