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Instrument: Guitar, acoustic
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David Carradine by strumming his guitar with words of inspiration, Woody Guthrie instilled hope in the hearts of downtrodden Americans everywhere during the 1930s Depression. Now, the extraordinary life of this legendary balladeer and poet is captured in this "elegantly crafted, hugely beautiful and interesting film, which reveals loving integrity in every frame" (Los Angeles Times)! Winner of two Oscars and starring David Carradine, Bound for Glory features "magnificent cinematography" (New York) and an amazing score adaptation. It's 1936, and the Great Depression is forcing droves of people from the dust bowls of Texas to the alluring green fields of California...and unemployed sign-painter Woody Guthrie is among them. Determined to find a better life out west, Guthrie hitchhikes, hops freight trains and sings his way across America, uplifting the spirits of the poor with his homespun wisdom and fiercely fighting for a better life for all. Featuring classic Guthrie tunes including This Land Is Your Land, this "moving, inspiring" (The Hollywood Reporter) portrait of an American icon is "one of [the] year's most admirable and triumphant surprises" (Los Angeles Times)! *1976: Cinematography, Music (Adaptation Score). The film shot in country side of Isleton, just out of Stockton California
David Carradine Dies at 72; Star of 'Kung Fu'
Carradine was found dead in his hotel room in Bangkok, where he was working on a movie. A Thai newspaper indicates he committed suicide. David Carradine, who became a TV icon in the early 1970s starring as an enigmatic Buddhist monk with a flair for martial arts in “Kung Fu" and more recently played the head ...
Bound for Hell, or Glory, at the Cinematheque
Not since I saw Bill Irwin and Kathleen Turner go at each other in an excellent production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? a couple of years ago have I experienced a night of live theater quite as riveting as the three-way cage match between David Carradine, Haskell Wexler, and the audience the other night following ...
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. He leaves his wife, Mary (Melinda Dillon), with her family and, like thousands ...
David Carradine: Still Punchy After All These Years
It's still early, but it's pretty safe to say that the award for the “Craziest Post- Screening Panel Discussion of the Year". It has to go to David Carradine and Haskell Wexler, who got to show everyone who stayed after an American Cinematheque screening of Hal Ashby's “Bound for Glory" just what it must've been like ...
David Carradine @ Screening 'Bound for Glory' Tonight
Film critic Kevin Thomas introduces this screening of Hal Ashby's 1976 biopic about folk singer Woody ("This Machine Kills Fascists") Guthrie. Star David Carradine will appear in- person for a Q&A following the screening. A Beautiful film. Bound For Glory Wednesday Mar 18 07:30 PM Price: $10 ...
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