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biopic: Leadbelly (1976)

10 Jun 04 - 01:53 PM (#1204478)
Subject: leadbelly biopic
From: Big Al Whittle

some time in the 1970's there was a biopic made about Leadbelly. Did anyone catch this or get a video, or buy the album - has it made it to dvd.
in the early days of satellite tv it was shown a few times in the early hours of the morning, but nobody I knew was capable of videoing it.

I've always had a hankering to see this film, even if it stinks, I feel it was an all right concept

any information gratefully received!


10 Jun 04 - 02:17 PM (#1204497)
Subject: RE: leadbelly biopic
From: fat B****rd

You can find it on various movie websites. In my opinion (AND IT IS ONLY MY OPINION !!) it's crap. By the law of averages it'll come round again, so watch and see. ATB from the fB.


10 Jun 04 - 02:23 PM (#1204500)
Subject: RE: leadbelly biopic
From: Nerd

Yeah I caught it once on late night TV. Not a great flick, not that accurate either. But the guy who played Leadbelly was OK.


10 Jun 04 - 03:04 PM (#1204526)
Subject: RE: leadbelly biopic
From: Don Firth

HERE is a little poop on the movie. I checked Blockbuster and they list it, but say it's not available for rent or purchase. I got it from the Seattle Public Library, so if you have a fairly large library nearby, that may be a place to check.

I took it for what it was, enjoyed it, and thought it was actually a pretty good movie. Hardly accurate, but then when I was a kid, I saw a lot of movies like A Song to Remember, which was supposedly a biopic about Chopin escaping from Poland and giving concerts in Paris to raise money to drive the Russians out, and Song of Sheherazade, presumably about Rimksy-Korsakov's adventures when he was a cadet in the Russian navy, courting a Spanish beauty in Morocco, and trying to write music at the same time. They were accurate only in the broadest sense—that these were real people, the story followed the general curve of their lives, and some of what they depicted was accurate—but with a lot of Hollywood goat-feathers thrown in for the sake of sheer story-telling.

Leadbelly is much the same, but what makes all three of these movies good is that they are packed wall-to-wall with the music of their protagonists.

Don Firth


10 Jun 04 - 03:10 PM (#1204530)
Subject: RE: leadbelly biopic
From: Nerd

Wow! That imdb page reveals that there was a character in the movie called Dicklicker. I didn't notice THAT when they played it on TV!


10 Jun 04 - 03:13 PM (#1204533)
Subject: RE: leadbelly biopic
From: Amos

ANd here I thought biopic meant "myopic in both eyes"!! :>))

A


10 Jun 04 - 03:15 PM (#1204536)
Subject: RE: leadbelly biopic
From: Big Al Whittle

i never held a mans profession against him. In some schools the careers advice isn't what it should be.


10 Jun 04 - 03:18 PM (#1204541)
Subject: RE: leadbelly biopic
From: GUEST,jennifer

Ha! I'm not alone, I thought until recently that the word was bi-O-pic and meant a close look at something, rather than BIO-pic as in biography. Further misunderstandings... misled pronounced mizzled and meaning sort of puzzled, int-RAV-enous rather than intra-VEN-ous meaning a way of feeding somebody if they're not hungry... comes of reading too much and not talking to people.


10 Jun 04 - 03:28 PM (#1204545)
Subject: RE: leadbelly biopic
From: Little Robyn

As well as Dicklicker there's someone called Sugar Tit! I don't see any mention of Alan Lomax, though John is there.


10 Jun 04 - 03:31 PM (#1204548)
Subject: RE: leadbelly biopic
From: Big Al Whittle

dicklicker is fairly unambiguous though. hard to believe he knew somebody with that name and it didn't make it into a song....


11 Jun 04 - 11:27 AM (#1205193)
Subject: RE: leadbelly biopic
From: Mark Ross

I do believe there is a song mentioned somewhere in one of the books by Lomax, or about that era, called DICKLICKERS HOLLER.

Mark Ross


11 Jun 04 - 11:35 AM (#1205199)
Subject: RE: leadbelly biopic
From: Amos

I don't suppose the lyrics would be suitable for publication....


A


11 Jun 04 - 11:41 AM (#1205204)
Subject: RE: leadbelly biopic
From: greg stephens

Well, there was certainly a Leadbelly song called Dick's Holler. I think Dicklicker's Holler is stretching credulity a bit far.


11 Jun 04 - 02:43 PM (#1205291)
Subject: RE: leadbelly biopic
From: Big Al Whittle

oh come now surely somebody remembers the old Dorset folksong:-

Oi am the village dicklicker
And my name is Sid
My brother he's the arselicker
We does it for a quid


07 Mar 09 - 03:57 PM (#2583443)
Subject: RE: leadbelly biopic
From: GUEST

Check Leadbelly Foundation for the the title Dick Licker's Holler. Hmmm its THERE!