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Bound for Glory

Based On the book by Woody Guthrie

Bound for Glory is a 1976 American biographical film directed by Hal Ashby, produced by folk music impresario and Woody Guthrie's manager Harold Leventhal and loosely adapted by Robert Getchell from Guthrie's 1943 partly fictionalized autobiography Bound for Glory. The film stars David Carradine as folk singer Woody Guthrie, with Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, John Lehne, Ji-Tu Cumbuka and Randy Quaid. Much of the film is based on Guthrie's attempt to humanize the desperate Okie Dust Bowl refugees in California during the Great Depression. Bound for Glory was the first motion picture in which inventor/operator Garrett Brown used his new Steadicam for filming moving scenes.

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Release date:
December 5, 1976
Director:
Hal Ashby
Cast:
David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, Randy Quaid
Country:
United States
Language:
English

Book vs Film

Cover of Bound for Glory
The Book · 1943

Bound for Glory

Woody Guthrie

Poster for Bound for Glory
The Film · 1976

Bound for Glory

Hal Ashby

★ 7.2 / 10 6,061 votes · IMDb

Reached the screen 33 years after publication.

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