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Leadbelly

Title
Leadbelly (2024)
Leadbelly
Year
2024
Catalog
Genre
IMDB
Rating
6.5 from 10 with total 2 votes
Premiere
1976-05-28
Runtime
126 minutes
Description
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 character Huddie Ledbetter

Paul Benjamin character Wes Ledbetter

Madge Sinclair character Miss Eula

Alan Manson character Prison Chief Guard

Albert Hall character Dicklicker

Art Evans character Blind Lemon Jefferson

James Brodhead character John Lomax

John Henry Faulk character Gov. Pat Neff

Lynn Hamilton character Sally Ledbetter

Ernie Hudson character Archie (as Earnest L. Hudson)

William Wintersole character Sheriff Gibbons