Purlie
- Released on
Drama, Music
•- Runtime
- 142 mins
(2 votes)
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.
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.
Cast
- 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
Director
- Rudi Goldman
Producers
- Robert R. Thiel
