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Bound for Glory (1976) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 29, 2000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
2 hours, 27 minutes
Country USA
Studio United Artists
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Other Titles
• Bound for Glory
• Dieses Land ist mein Land (1977)
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Genre: Drama, On The Road, Biography, Buddies, True Story, Period Piece, Society
Plot: Hal Ashby's film of Woody Guthrie's autobiography, BOUND FOR GLORY, recounts the protest singer's life starting when he's a young man with a wife and two children, trying to find work as a sign painter in the Dust Bowl-ravaged Texas of the 1930s. He leaves his wife, Mary (Melinda Dillon), with her family and, like thousands of others, rides the rails to California. Along the way he sees the brutal treatment of men by the railroad's hired thugs before being thrown into a hard life in the migrant workers camps of the San Fernando Valley. He begins to write songs about everything he's seen and joins Ozark Bule on the radio, not just singing about union organizing, but actually going to meetings and brawling with union-busting goons. When the radio station management, as a result of pressure from its advertisers, tells Woody--who's now attracting a following with his protest songs and ballads about the lives of oppressed people--that he can't do those songs, he gives up the radio program and decides to ride the rails to New York to seek a larger audience for his music. David Carradine, as Guthrie, does his own singing, giving an intimacy to the songs that might have been lost by dubbing. The award-winning cinematography by Haskell Wexler captures both the bleakness of the Great
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| Directed by |
Hal Ashby
Being There, Harold and Maude, The Last Detail |
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| Written by |
Robert Getchell
Point of No Return, This Boy's Life, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | |
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| Cast |
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 | Ronny Cox
Total Recall, Deep Blue Sea, Beverly Hills Cop |
 | Randy Quaid
Independence Day, Brokeback Mountain, Not Another Teen Movie |
 | Melinda Dillon
Magnolia, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, A Christmas Story | Gail Strickland
The American President, When a Man Loves a Woman, The Man in the Moon | | Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Brewster's Millions, Outrageous Fortune, Volunteers | |
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| Music By |
Leonard Rosenman
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Rebel Without a Cause, Barry Lyndon |
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