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Film / 1981
Purlie
Directed by
Rudi Goldman
Purlie is a musical based on Ossie Davis' 1961 play Purlie Victorious. In the early days of the civil rights movement, a Southern plantation owner holds his sharecroppers in virtual slavery. Purlie comes home as a preacher who will shake things up and bring freedom to his people. This 1981 television adaptation won a CableACE Award.
The story
Purlie is a musical based on Ossie Davis' 1961 play Purlie Victorious. In the early days of the civil rights movement, a Southern plantation owner holds his sharecroppers in virtual slavery. Purlie comes home as a preacher who will shake things up and bring freedom to his people. This 1981 television adaptation won a CableACE Award.
Cast
Robert GuillaumePurlie
Melba MooreLutiebelle
Sherman HemsleyGitlow
Linda HopkinsSister Hopkins
Rhetta HughesMissy
Brandon MaggartOl' Cap'n
Don ScardinoCharlie
Clarice TaylorIdella
Loretta AbbottEnsemble
Brenda BraxtonEnsemble
P.L. BrownEnsemble
Olivia DetanteEnsemble
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Suzzanne DouglasEnsemble
Cisco DraytonEnsemble
Tanya GibsonEnsemble
Michael GoringEnsemble
Milt GraysonEnsemble
Lawrence HamiltonEnsemble
Clinton King KeenEnsemble
Mildred LaneEnsemble
Judy LeakEnsemble
Eugene LittleEnsemble
Pauletta WashingtonEnsemble
Lou Ann PickettEnsemble
Herbert RawlingsEnsemble
Renee RoseEnsemble
Ted RossEnsemble
Otis SallidEnsemble
Henry ShawEnsemble
Valerie SmithEnsemble
Jeffery V. ThompsonEnsemble
Denessa TobinEnsemble
David WeatherspoonEnsemble
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