Bound for Glory (1976)

2h 27m
Running Time

December 5, 1976
Release Date

Bound for Glory (1976)

2h 27m
Running Time

December 5, 1976
Release Date

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United Artists
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Plot.

A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America's working class.

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Cast & Crew.

Lyle Ritz

Lyle Ritz

Musician

Johana De Winter

Johana De Winter

Union Organizer

Gary Downey

Gary Downey

Union Organizer / Stunts

Jama Tegeler

Jama Tegeler

Girl at Union Meeting

G. Marie Haller

G. Marie Haller

Field School Teacher

Leanna Johnson Heath

Leanna Johnson Heath

Girl at Stream

Robert Ginty

Robert Ginty

Artichoke Picker

Tony Becker

Tony Becker

Tough Boy on Train

Details.

Release Date
December 5, 1976

Status
Released

Running Time
2h 27m

Genres

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This Movie Is About.

biography
1930s
folk music
great depression
labor union
based on memoir or autobiography
riding the rail
hoedown
dust bowl

Wiki.

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.

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