Bound for Glory (1976)
December 5, 1976Release Date
Bound for Glory (1976)
December 5, 1976Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
David Carradine
Woody Guthrie
Ronny Cox
Ozark Bule
Melinda Dillon
Mary - Woody's Wife
John Lehne
Locke
Gail Strickland
Pauline
Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Slim Snedeger
Hal Ashby
Director
Robert Getchell
Writer
Randy Quaid
Luther Johnson
Woody Guthrie
Writer
Elizabeth Macey
Liz
Susan Vaill
Gwen Guthrie
Robert F. Blumofe
Producer
Sarah Vaill
Gwen Guthrie
Harold Leventhal
Producer
Haskell Wexler
Cinematographer
Alexandra Mock
Sue Guthrie
Kimberly Mock
Sue Guthrie
Miriam Byrd-Nethery
Sick Woman
Jane Lambert
Other Woman
Jan Burrell
Other Woman
Lee McLaughlin
Heavy Chandler
Ted Gehring
Connors
Robert Sorrells
Charlie Guthrie
Guthrie Thomas
George Guthrie
Wendy Schaal
Mary Jo Guthrie
Delos V. Smith Jr.
Old Man Jenkins
David Clennon
Carl
Larry Luttrell
Hank
Beeson Carroll
Collister
Mary Kay Place
Sue Ann
Tani Guthrie
Donna Jo
James O'Connell
Jesse
Bruce Johnson
Jimmy
R.A. Rondell
Steve
James Jeter
Crippled Whitey
Clifford A. Pellow
Bill
Tom Howard
Railroad Harness Guard
Chuck Katzakian
Railroad Harness Guard
Harry Holcombe
Minister
Evelyn Russell
Wife
M. Emmet Walsh
Husband
Sondra Blake
Judy
Brion James
Pick Up Truck Driver at the Border
James Carroll
Man at Border
Tom Peters
Man at Border
Raymond Guth
Hobo
Buddy Joe Hooker
Man Shot Off Train / Stunt Coordinator / Second Unit Director
James Hong
Chili Joint Owner
Cara Corren
Girl Singer at Migrant Camp
Susan Barnes
Girl Singer at Migrant Camp
Bobby Bass
Head Goon at Migrant Camp
Harvey J. Newmark
Musician
Thomas J. Sauber
Musician
Lyle Ritz
Musician
Johana De Winter
Union Organizer
Gary Downey
Union Organizer / Stunts
Jama Tegeler
Girl at Union Meeting
G. Marie Haller
Field School Teacher
Leanna Johnson Heath
Girl at Stream
Robert Ginty
Artichoke Picker
Tony Becker
Tough Boy on Train
Kip Addotta
Cocoanut Grove Audition Singer
Burke Byrnes
Mr. Graham
Samantha Harper
Amy Martin
Eva-Marie Fredric
Migrant Camp Kid (uncredited)
Bob Harks
Cameraman (uncredited)
Bernie Kopell
Woody's Agent (uncredited)
Allan Miller
Woody Agent (uncredited)
Carl D. Parker
Blind Man (uncredited)
Bill Riddle
Pimp on the Train (uncredited)
Klaus Wille
Migrant Camp Worker (uncredited)
Lynn Stalmaster
Casting
Leonard Rosenman
Conductor / Music Arranger
Pembroke J. Herring
Editor
George Brand
Music Editor
Charles Mulvehill
Production Manager / Associate Producer
David R. Ellis
Stunts
Michael D. Haller
Production Design
Donald E. Thorin
Camera Operator
James L. Berkey
Set Decoration
Jophery C. Brown
Stunts
Robert C. Jones
Editor
Jeannie Epper
Stunts
Taylor Lacher
Stunts
William Ware Theiss
Costume Design
Tony Epper
Stunts
Dick Ziker
Stunts
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Bound for Glory is a 1976 American biographical film directed by Hal Ashby and loosely adapted by Robert Getchell from Woody Guthrie's 1943 partly fictionalized autobiography Bound for Glory. The film stars David Carradine as folk singer Woody Guthrie, with Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, John Lehne, Ji-Tu Cumbuka and Randy Quaid. Much of the film is based on Guthrie's attempt to humanize the desperate Okie Dust Bowl refugees in California during the Great Depression.
Bound for Glory was the first motion picture in which inventor/operator Garrett Brown used his new Steadicam for filming moving scenes. Director of photography Haskell Wexler won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography at the 49th Academy Awards.
All of the main events and characters, except for Guthrie and his first wife, Mary, are entirely fictional. The film ends with Guthrie singing his most famous song, "God Blessed America for Me" (subsequently retitled "This Land Is Your Land"), on his way to New York, but, in fact, the song was composed in New York in 1940 and forgotten by him until five years later.