Purlie(1981)
movie - first aired/released 1981-10-12 - 142 min - audience 6.5
Drama, Music
Directed by Rudi Goldman
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.
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Cast
Robert GuillaumePurlie
Melba MooreLutiebelle
Sherman HemsleyGitlow
Linda HopkinsSister Hopkins
Rhetta HughesMissy
Brandon MaggartOl' Cap'n
Don ScardinoCharlie
Clarice TaylorIdella- Loretta AbbottEnsemble
- Brenda BraxtonEnsemble
P.L. BrownEnsemble- Olivia DetanteEnsemble
Suzzanne DouglasEnsemble- Cisco DraytonEnsemble
- Tanya GibsonEnsemble
- Michael GoringEnsemble
- Milt GraysonEnsemble
- Lawrence HamiltonEnsemble
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- Clinton King KeenEnsemble
- Mildred LaneEnsemble
- Judy LeakEnsemble
- Eugene LittleEnsemble
Pauletta WashingtonEnsemble- Lou Ann PickettEnsemble
- Herbert RawlingsEnsemble
- Renee RoseEnsemble
Ted RossEnsemble
Otis SallidEnsemble- Henry ShawEnsemble
- Valerie SmithEnsemble
- Jeffery V. ThompsonEnsemble
- Denessa TobinEnsemble
- David WeatherspoonEnsemble
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