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Purlie (1981)
Directed by Rudi Goldman
Overview
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.
Length 142 minutes
Actors
Robert Guillaume | Melba Moore | Sherman Hemsley | Linda Hopkins | Rhetta Hughes | Brandon Maggart | Don Scardino | Clarice Taylor | Loretta Abbott | Brenda Braxton | P.L. Brown | Olivia Detante | Suzzanne Douglas | Cisco Drayton | Tanya Gibson | Michael Goring | Milt Grayson | Lawrence Hamilton | Clinton King Keen | Mildred Lane | Judy Leak | Eugene Little | Pauletta Washington | Lou Ann Pickett | Herbert Rawlings | Renee Rose | Ted Ross | Otis Sallid | Henry Shaw | Valerie Smith | Jeffery V. Thompson | Denessa Tobin | David Weatherspoon