Cat. No. DVDM 1192: FREEDOM ROAD ~ MUHAMMAD ALI / KRIS KRISTOFFERSON. ENTERTAINMENT TREASURES TE 1130.

$14.95
Unit price per

Tax included.

FORMAT: NTSC REGION: 4.

COLOUR RUNNING TIME: 96 MINS.

REVIEW: Freedom Road is based on the true-life efforts of Senators Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens to bring political order and racial equality to the post-Civil War South. Muhammad Ali, in a rare acting role, plays an emancipated slave fighting for civil rights in this stirring film. Set in South Carolina, an illiterate runaway slave, Gideon Jackson (Ali), returns home to the sprawling Carolina plantation, his birthplace, after serving as a Union soldier. A self-effacing yet commanding man, Jackson earns respect and trust of his Carwell peers, a community of liberated Blacks and sharecropping Whites, who elect him under Reconstruction Law as a delegate to rewrite the state constitution in Charleston. There Gideon gets a lesson in politics and teaches himself to read and write. Both educations prove valuable to Gideon as he sets out on a hard-fought struggle against intolerance and injustice that’s marked by an uphill battle to buy land.

DVD

We Also Recommend

Cat. No. DVDM 1671: THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH ~ CHARLTON HESTON / BETTY HUTTON / JAMES STEWART. PARAMOUNT / SHOCK KAL5034.

Cat. No. 2053: GRAN TORINO ~ CLINT EASTWOOD. WARNER BROS. / ROADSHOW R-108782-9.

Cat. No. DVDM 2052: DELIVERANCE ~ BURT REYNOLDS / JON VOIGHT / ED BEATTY / RONNY COX. WARNER BROS. Y16512.

Cat. No. DVDM 2042: THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER 11 ~ TOM BURLINSON / SIGRID THORNTON / BRIAN DENNEHY / NICOLAS EADIE. ROADSHOW 1036889.

Cat. No. DVDM 2038: NORTH BY NORTHWEST ~ CARY GRANT / EVA MARIE SAINT / JAMES MASON. WARNER BROS 65016.