Bound for Glory (film)

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Bound for Glory
Directed by Hal Ashby
Written by Robert Getchell
Starring David Carradine
Ronny Cox
Melinda Dillon
Gail Strickland
Cinematography Haskell Wexler
Editing by Pembroke J. Herring
Robert C. Jones
Release date(s) December 5, 1976
Running time 147 min
Language English
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Bound for Glory is a 1976 biographical film which tells the story of folk singer Woody Guthrie, with David Carradine in the title role.

It was directed by Hal Ashby and adapted from Woody Guthrie's 1943 autobiography, Bound for Glory (co-written by Robert Getchell). It stars Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, John Lehne, Ji-Tu Cumbuka and Randy Quaid. Much of the film is based on Guthrie's attempt to humanize the desperate Okie Dust Bowl refugees in California during the Great Depression. Many of the scenes were filmed in and around Bakersfield and Kern County, actual places of Dust Bowl strife and settlement. Guthrie is best known for his very popular folk songs, most notably, "This Land Is Your Land."

Bound for Glory was the first motion picture in which inventor Garrett Brown used his Steadicam invention for filming moving scenes. Director of Photography Haskell Wexler won an Oscar for Best Cinematography (1976).

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Films directed by Hal Ashby

The Landlord (1970) • Harold and Maude (1971) • The Last Detail (1973) • Shampoo (1975) • Bound for Glory (1976) • Coming Home (1978) • Being There (1979) • Second-Hand Hearts (1981) • Lookin' to Get Out (1982) • Zapped! (1982) • Let's Spend the Night Together (1983) • The Slugger's Wife (1985) • 8 Million Ways to Die (1986)