Leadbelly

Gordon Parks
1976-05-28

You can't bury a black legend like Leadbelly!
6.2
126 min

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

Name Character Team
Roger E. Mosley Huddie Ledbetter Unowned
Paul Benjamin Wes Ledbetter Unowned
Madge Sinclair Miss Eula Unowned
Alan Manson Prison Chief Guard Unowned
Albert Hall Dicklicker Unowned
Art Evans Blind Lemon Jefferson Unowned
James Brodhead John Lomax Unowned
John Henry Faulk Gov. Pat Neff Unowned
Lynn Hamilton Sally Ledbetter Unowned
Ernie Hudson Archie (as Earnest L. Hudson) Unowned
William Wintersole Sheriff Gibbons Unowned
Rhetta Greene Lethe Unowned