Purlie
Purlie
Release: 1981-10-12
·Runtime: 142m
·★ 5.3
Drama
Music
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
CBS Productions
Showtime Networks
Cast
Brandon Maggart
as Ol' Cap'n
P.L. Brown
as Ensemble
Linda Hopkins
as Sister Hopkins
Rhetta Hughes
as Missy
Otis Sallid
as Ensemble
Clarice Taylor
as Idella
Pauletta Washington
as Ensemble
Melba Moore
as Lutiebelle
Sherman Hemsley
as Gitlow
Suzzanne Douglas
as Ensemble
Ted Ross
as Ensemble
Robert Guillaume
as Purlie
Don Scardino
as Charlie
