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Bound for Glory
Directed by
Hal Ashby
PG
1976
2h 27m
Drama
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Biography
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7.2
81%
76%
6.9
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This film is an excellent biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, and discovered the suffering and strength of America's working class.
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Cast of Bound for Glory
David Carradine
Woody Guthrie
Ronny Cox
Ozark Bule
Melinda Dillon
Mary / Memphis Sue
Gail Strickland
Pauline
John Lehne
Locke
Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Slim Snedeger
Randy Quaid
Luther Johnson
Elizabeth Macey
Liz
Susan Vaill
Gwen Guthrie
Sarah Vaill
Gwen Guthrie
Alexandra Mock
Sue Guthrie
Kimberly Mock
Sue Guthrie
Miriam Byrd-Nethery
Sick Woman
Jane Lambert
Other Woman
Jan Burrell
Other Woman
Lee McLaughlin
Heavy Chandler
Ted Gehring
Connors
Robert Sorrells
Charlie Guthrie
Guthrie Thomas
George Guthrie
Wendy Schaal
Mary Jo Guthrie
Bound for Glory Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
Bound For Glory isn't quite an epic; it's a hole-in-shoe pastoral, and we can't help being aware that this is the most expensive-looking Depression we've ever seen,
El Nuevo Herald (Miami)
Rene Jordan
This film is intelligently directed, magnificently acted, brilliantly shot, and edited by an angled equipped with scissors. [Full review in Spanish]
Playgirl
Judith Crist
Carradine's performance is sweet and sure, spiced by the willfulness of a dedicated man.
Berkeley Barb
Marina Hirsch
The cinematographer is Haskell Wexler, and his scenes are still paintings, glowing at the edges, awash in muted and glowing light. Every scene looks hand-tinted, like old postcards. I wish they'd shot the movie in black and white.
IONCINEMA.com
Jordan M. Smith
While certainly not as boldly original as his prior work on Harold and Maude or The Last Detail, with his big budget Hollywood biopic, Ashby crafted a period perfect film that really rides on Carradine's salt of the earth performance.
Los Angeles Free Press
Ruth Batchelor
A hauntingly beautiful, socio-political film.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
There are images in Hal Ashby's Bound For Glory so striking or so beautiful I doubt I'll ever forget them... The film has a grave dignity, which is good, but it often seems to lack life, which would be better.
Creative Loafing
Matt Brunson
The role was earmarked for Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro (among others), but it's hard to imagine even these accomplished thespians matching the sly insouciance or devil-may-care charm which Carradine makes indispensable to the part.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It's a story that's truly worth telling, but should have been pruned by 30 minutes and it wouldn't have lost a thing artistically.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
One half of a very good movie.
TV Guide
A moving, brilliantly photographed picture that portrays the legendary eccentric folksinger Woody Guthrie in a trip across Depression-era America.
Variety
Variety Staff
Bound for Glory is outstanding biographical cinema, not only of the late Woody Guthrie but also of the 1930s Depression era which served to disillusion, inspire and radicalize him and millions of other Americans.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Though made with an eye for the Bicentennial, this biopic of folk singer and union organizer Woody Guthrie didn't make any attempt to speak to contemporary viewers, which might explain its box-office failure.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Hope you like folk music, because there isn't much variety to be found among his music. Neither is there much variety in the scenery.
Spirituality & Practice
Mary Ann Brussat
A remarkably touching and humane film about Woody Guthrie
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