Release Date

28 May, 1976

Runtime

02:06: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

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Actors

Roger E. Mosley

Paul Benjamin

Madge Sinclair

Alan Manson

Albert Hall

Art Evans

James Brodhead

John Henry Faulk

Lynn Hamilton

Ernie Hudson

William Wintersole

Rhetta Greene

Crew

Bruce Surtees

Fred Karlin

Gordon Parks

Ernest Kinoy

Marc Merson

Moe Howard

Thomas Penick

Robert F. Boyle

John A. Kuri

David Frost