Mar 29, 2009 | All About Jazz
TV/FILM: Woody Guthrie's Music Inspires Americas Dust Bowl Era Desperation
Hal Ashby's film of Woody Guthrie's autobiography, BOUND FOR GLORY , recounts the protest singer's life starting when he's a young man with a wife and two children, trying to find work as a sign painter in the Dust Bowl-ravaged Texas of the 1930s.
Woody Guthrie... David Carradine Ozark Rule... Ronny Cox Mary Guthrie... Melinda Dillon Pauline... Gail Strickland Luther... Randy Quaid Hobo on train... Ji-Tu Cumbuka United Artists presents a film directed by Hal Ashby and produced by Robert F. Blumore and Harold Leventhal.
Hard to believe but the classic movie "A Christmas Story" turns a quarter century old this year.