09 Aug 1996
Basquiat
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
Leadbelly
You can't bury a black legend like Leadbelly!
The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.
Top Billed Cast
Roger E. Mosley Huddie Ledbetter
Paul Benjamin Wes Ledbetter
Madge Sinclair Miss Eula
Alan Manson Prison Chief Guard
Albert Hall Dicklicker
Art Evans Blind Lemon Jefferson
James Brodhead John Lomax
John Henry Faulk Gov. Pat Neff
Lynn Hamilton Sally Ledbetter
Ernie Hudson Archie (as Earnest L. Hudson)
William Wintersole Sheriff Gibbons
Rhetta Greene Lethe
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