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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.
Cast: Roger E. Mosley, James Brodhead, John McDonald, Leonard Wrentz, Ernie Hudson, Dana Manno, William Wintersole, Paul Benjamin, Lynn Hamilton, Carole Lamond, Melba Englander, Pamela Singleton, Rozaa Jean, Nat Williams, Madge Sinclair, George Williams, Timothy Pickard, Rhetta Greene, Art Evans, William Creamer
Writer: Ernest Kinoy (Writer)
Cinematographer: Bruce Surtees
Production Designer: Robert F. Boyle
Editor: Moe Howard
Sound Designer: Gene S. Cantamessa
Composer: Fred Karlin
Direction team: Reuben Watt (First Assistant Director), Richard A. Wells (Second Assistant Director)
Producers: Marc Merson, David Frost, Jack Grossberg
Production: David Paradine Productions, Brownstone Productions, Zeeuwse Maatschappij N.V.
