Freedom Road
movie
Released October 29, 1979
Genres:
Overview
Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.
Cast
Muhammad Ali
as
Gideon Jackson
Kris Kristofferson
as
Abner Lait
Ron O'Neal
as
Francis Cardoza
Edward Herrmann
as
Stephen Holmes
John McLiam
as
President Ulysses S. Grant
Ossie Davis
as
Narrator
Barbara O. Jones
as
Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)
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Sonny Jim Gaines
as
Brother Peter
Joel Fluellen
as
James Allenby
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Jean Foster
as
Ellen Allenby
Grace Zabriskie
as
Ruth Lait
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Bill Mackey
as
Trooper
Crew
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Bill Webb
as
Set Decoration
Ján Kadár
as
Director
Tony Brubaker
as
Stunt Double
Howard Fast
as
Novel
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Zev Braun
as
Executive Producer
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Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
as
Original Music Composer
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Daniel A. Lomino
as
Production Design
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Terry James
as
Original Music Composer
George Folsey Jr.
as
Editor
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Charles Correll
as
Director of Photography
David Zelag Goodman
as
Writer
Anne Goursaud
as
Editor