Bound for Glory (film)
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83% Director Hal Ashby Story by Woody Guthrie Duration Language English | 7.4/10 IMDb 4/4 Roger Ebert Genre Biography, Drama, Music Initial DVD release February 29, 2000 Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date December 5, 1976 (1976-12-05) (United States) Based on Bound for Glory
1943 book
by Woody Guthrie Writer Robert Getchell (screenplay), Woody Guthrie (autobiography) Cast David Carradine (Woody Guthrie), Ronny Cox (Ozark Bule), Melinda Dillon (Mary / Memphis Sue), Gail Strickland (Pauline), John Lehne (Locke), Randy Quaid (Luther Johnson)Similar movies Leadbelly (1976), Great Balls of Fire! (1989), Man in the Sand (1999), Walk the Line (2005), Stars and Stripes Forever (1952) |
Bound for glory 1976 trailer
Bound for Glory is a 1976 American film directed by Hal Ashby and loosely adapted by Robert Getchell from Woody Guthrie's 1943 autobiography Bound for Glory. The film stars David Carradine as folk singer Woody Guthrie and Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, John Lehne, Ji-Tu Cumbuka and Randy Quaid.
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- Plot
- Academy Awards
- Accolades
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Bound for Glory was the first motion picture in which inventor/operator Garrett Brown used his new Steadicam for filming moving scenes. Director of Photography Haskell Wexler won an Oscar for Best Cinematography (1976).

All of the main events and characters, except for Guthrie and his first wife, Mary, are entirely fictional. The film ends with Guthrie singing his most famous song, "God Blessed America" (subsequently retitled "This Land Is Your Land"), on his way to New York, but, in fact, the song was composed in New York in 1940 and forgotten by him until five years later.

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Plot

During the Great Depression in the 1930s, Midwesterner Guthrie (David Carradine) plays music locally but cannot make enough as a sign painter to support his wife (Melinda Dillon) and children. With only his paintbrushes, Woody joins the migration westward from the Dust Bowl to supposedly greener California pastures via boxcar and hitchhiking. Much of the film is based on Guthrie's attempt to humanize the desperate Okie Dust Bowl refugees in California during the Great Depression.
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References
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