Freedom Road (TV)
1979 · Movie · 186 min. · United States
Muhammad Ali, in a rare acting role, plays Gideon Jackson, an ex-slave in 1870's Virginia who gets elected to the U.S. Senate in Washington D.C. and battles other former slaves and white sharecroppers to keep the land they tended all their lives.
Direction Ján Kadár
Cast Muhammad Ali · Kris Kristofferson · Ron O'Neal · Edward Herrmann · John McLiam · Ossie Davis · Barbarao · Sonny Jim Gaines · Joel Fluellen · Grace Zabriskie · Alfre Woodard · Sonny Shroyer · Ernest Dixon · Sylvia Williams · Tom Delaney · William Allen Young · Tony Ross · Howland Chamberlain · Georgia Allen · James Bowman · Don Brady · Barbara Chaney · Ian Graham · Bill Holliday · Don Hood · Pixote Hunt · Don Lutenbacher · Ritchie Montgomery · Danny Nelson · Afemo Omilami · David Robbins · Gregory White
Soundtrack Terry James · Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Screenplay Howard Fast · David Zelag Goodman
Cinematography Charles Correll
Original title Freedom Road (TV)
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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