Freedom Road (1979)

Name: Freedom Road
Director: Ján Kadár
Genre: Drama
Released: 1979-10-29
Duration: 186 min
Cast: Muhammad Ali, Kris Kristofferson, Ron O'Neal, Edward Herrmann, John McLiam

19793h 6mDrama

Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.

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Cast

Muhammad AliGideon Jackson
Kris KristoffersonAbner Lait
Ron O'NealFrancis Cardoza
Edward HerrmannStephen Holmes
John McLiamPresident Ulysses S. Grant
Ossie DavisNarrator
Barbara O. JonesRachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)
SSonny Jim GainesBrother Peter
Joel FluellenJames Allenby
JJean FosterEllen Allenby
Grace ZabriskieRuth Lait
BBill MackeyTrooper
EEarl D.A. SmithHannibal
Alfre WoodardKatie
FFred CovingtonSheriff Bentley
Sonny ShroyerJason Hugar
EErnest DixonMarion Jefferson
SSylvia Kuumba WilliamsLouise Jefferson

Crew

Director: Ján Kadár
Writers: David Zelag Goodman
Producers: Zev Braun Chet Walker Leland Nolan
Music: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Terry James
Cinematography: Charles Correll
Editing: Anne Goursaud George Folsey Jr.

Details

Released: October 29, 1979
Language: English
Studio: Braun Entertainment Group, Worldvision
IMDb: tt0079173