Solomon Northup's Odyssey (1984)
December 11, 1984Release Date
Solomon Northup's Odyssey (1984)
December 11, 1984Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Avery Brooks
Solomon Northup
Kent Broadhurst
Bass
Rhetta Greene
Jenny
Rhetta Greene
Jenny
Joe Seneca
Noah
Mason Adams
Ford
Lee Bryant
Mrs. Epps
Janet League
Eliza
Michael Tolan
Henry Northup
Charles Darden
Robert
Tony Dreyspool
Senator Soule
Anthony Edenfield
Ned
Art Evans
Walton
Harry George
Sherriff
Gordon Parks
Director
Solomon Northup
Writer
Ann Pearl Gray
Kelsey
Charles McGhee
Luke
Lou Potter
Writer
Jay McMillan
Harry
Samm-Art Williams
Writer
Petronia Paley
Anne Northup
Yanna Kroyt Brandt
Producer
J.C. Quinn
Tibeats
Details.
Release DateDecember 11, 1984
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 58m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsGeorgia, United States
Genres
Wiki.
Solomon Northup's Odyssey, reissued as Half Slave, Half Free, is a 1984 American television film based on the 1853 autobiography Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a free black man who in 1841 was kidnapped and sold into slavery. The film, which aired on PBS, was directed by Gordon Parks with Avery Brooks starring as the titular character. It was the second film to be funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, following A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion in 1982. Parks returned to direct the film after years of absence. He chose to work in the Deep South and to collaborate with a crew of mixed races. The film first aired on PBS on December 10, 1984 and as part of PBS's American Playhouse anthology television series in the following year. It was released on video under the title Half Slave, Half Free.
Solomon Northup's Odyssey was the first film adaptation of Twelve Years a Slave. A second film adaptation, the Academy Award for Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave, directed by Steve McQueen, was released in 2013.