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    Purlie

    Purlie

    1981

    2:22:58

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    5.3/10 (3)

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    Genre

    Drama
    Music

    Plot

    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.

    Director

    Rudi Goldman

    Writers

    Philip Rose, Peter Udell, Ossie Davis, Gary Geld, Peter Udell,

    Stars

    Robert Guillaume, Melba Moore, Sherman Hemsley, Linda Hopkins, Rhetta Hughes,