Freedom Road
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Grace Zabriskie
Ron O'neal
Barbara Chaney
Kris Kristofferson
Jeremiah Shabazz
John Mcliam
Film Details
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Synopsis
In this two-part, four-hour miniseries based on Howard Fast's 1944 novel about an ex-slave who is elected to the U.S. Senate while battling other former slaves and white sharecroppers to keep the land they tended all their lives, Muhammad Ali and Kris Kristofferson, as former slave and soldier Gideon Jackson and sharecropper Abner Lait, made their TV acting debuts. Director Jan Kadar (whose "The Shop on Main Street" won the 1965 Oscar as Best Foreign Film) died just after completing filming. (Ironically, director Tom Gries died while wrapping up Muhammad Ali's theatrical movie, "The Greatest," two years earlier.)
Cast
Grace Zabriskie
Ron O'neal
Barbara Chaney
Kris Kristofferson
Jeremiah Shabazz
John Mcliam
Alfre Woodard
Jean Renee Foster
Bob Zay
Robert Bloodworth
William Allen Young
Joel Fluellen
Rodney King Adams
Howland Chamberlain
Bill Mackey
Jerome Green
Erik Washington
Afemo Omilami
Don Lutenbacher
Sonny Shroyer
Tony Ross
Sonny Jim Gaines
Georgia Allen
Fred Covington
Howard Brunner
Ritchie Montgomery
Ian Graham
Edward Herrmann
Sylvia Williams
Barbara O Jones
Muhammad Ali
Tom J Delaney
Earl D A Smith
Lionel Ferbis
Stuart Culpepper
Courtney Pledger
Peter Gabb
Don Hood
Ossie Davis
Ron Gural
David Robbins
Greg White
Maurice Hunt
Ernest Dixon
Danny Nelson
James J Bowman
Don V Brady
Bill Holliday
Crew
Irving Abrahamson
Rick Anderson
Michael Arciaga
Denis Bieber
George Bouillet
Zev Braun
Tony Brubaker
Hank Calia
Erik Cord
Charles Correll
Ron Dawson
Roy Downey
Teresa Eckton
Howard Fast
George Folsey
Ted Gomillion
David Z. Goodman
Bradley Gross
Ted Grossman
Warren Hamilton
Joseph Holsen
Terrence James
Dennis E Jones
Ted Keep
Doug Kelley
Michael Kennedy
Melanie Levitt
Daniel Lomino
Glenn Mabson
Bill Mackey
Sharon Mann
Lance Middlebrook
F A Miller
Ritchie Montgomery
Leland Nolan
Maureen Osborne-beall
Coleridge-taylor Perkinson
James Quinn
David Robbins
Arthur Rochester
Christina Smith
Phil Smith
Robert Smith
Sylvio Tabet
Greg Walker
Dan Wallin
William Webb
Jay Wertz
Greg White
Ray Woodfork
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Aired in United States October 29, 1979
Aired in United States October 30, 1979
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