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Freedom Road (1979)
Muhammad Ali, in a rare acting role, plays Gideon Jackson, an ex-slave in 1870's Virginia who gets elected to the U.S. Senate in Washington D.C. and battles other former slaves and white sharecroppers to keep the land they tended all their lives.
Updated May 26 2020
Cast
Grace Zabriskie
Ruth Lait
Kris Kristofferson
Abner Lait
Ossie Davis
Narrator
John McLiam
President Ulysses S. Grant
Sonny Shroyer
Jason Hugar
Edward Herrmann
Stephen Holmes
Ron O'Neal
Francis Cardoza
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Crew
Charles Correll
Director of Photography
Anne Goursaud
Editor
George Folsey Jr.
Editor
Daniel A. Lomino
Production Design
Howard Fast
Novel
David Zelag Goodman
Writer
Zev Braun
Executive Producer
Leland Nolan
Producer
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