Leadbelly
You can't bury a black legend like Leadbelly!
6.4
8 votes
May 28, 1976
2h 6m
Overview
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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Roger E. Mosley
Huddie LedbetterJames Brodhead
John LomaxJohn McDonald
Tom PruittLeonard Wrentz
Guard
Ernie Hudson
ArchieDana Manno
Margaret JuddWilliam Wintersole
Sheriff Gibbons
Paul Benjamin
Wes Ledbetter
Lynn Hamilton
Sally Ledbetter
Carole Lamond
Laura MayMelba Englander
EvalinePamela Singleton
Fat BessieRozaa Jean
Sugar TitNat Williams
Albert
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