Purlie
movie
View on VideBits →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.
Cast & crew
Brandon Maggart · Rhetta Hughes · Don Scardino · Brenda Braxton · Robert Guillaume · Melba Moore · Linda Hopkins · Sherman Hemsley · Clarice Taylor · Rudi Goldman · Loretta Abbott