Leadbelly

May. 28,1976      PG
Rating:
7.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Roger E. Mosley as  Huddie Ledbetter
Paul Benjamin as  Wes Ledbetter
Madge Sinclair as  Miss Eula
Alan Manson as  Prison Chief Guard
Albert Hall as  Dicklicker
Art Evans as  Blind Lemon Jefferson
Lynn Hamilton as  Sally Ledbetter
Ernie Hudson as  Archie (as Earnest L. Hudson)

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Reviews

Dorathen
1976/05/28

Better Late Then Never

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TrueHello
1976/05/29

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

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StyleSk8r
1976/05/30

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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Fatma Suarez
1976/05/31

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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