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.
- 5.3
- 1981
- Released
- 2h 22m
Robert Guillaume
Purlie
Melba Moore
Lutiebelle
Sherman Hemsley
Gitlow
Linda Hopkins
Sister Hopkins
Rhetta Hughes
Missy
Brandon Maggart
Ol' Cap'n
Clarice Taylor
Idella
Loretta Abbott
EnsembleBrenda Braxton
Ensemble
P.L. Brown
EnsembleOlivia Detante
Ensemble
Suzzanne Douglas
EnsembleCisco Drayton
EnsembleTanya Gibson
EnsembleMichael Goring
EnsembleMilt Grayson
EnsembleLawrence Hamilton
EnsembleClinton King Keen
EnsembleMildred Lane
EnsembleJudy Leak
EnsembleEugene Little
Ensemble
Pauletta Washington
EnsembleLou Ann Pickett
EnsembleHerbert Rawlings
EnsembleRenee Rose
Ensemble
Ted Ross
EnsembleHenry Shaw
EnsembleValerie Smith
EnsembleJeffery V. Thompson
EnsembleDenessa Tobin
EnsembleDavid Weatherspoon
EnsembleReleased
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- #filmed theater
