Freedom Road (1979)| Cast list | | Muhammad Ali | as | Gideon Jackson | | Kris Kristofferson | as | Abner Lait | | Ron O'Neal | as | Francis Cardoza | | Edward Herrmann | as | Stephen Holms | | John McLiam | as | President Ulysses S. Grant | | Ossie Davis | as | Narrator | | Barbarao | as | Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones) | | Sonny Jim Gaines | as | Brother Peter | | Joel Fluellen | as | James Allenby | | Jean Foster | as | Ellen Allenby | | Grace Zabriskie | as | Ruth Lait | | Bill Mackey | as | Trooper | | Earl D.A. Smith | as | Hannibal | | Alfre Woodard | as | Katie | | Fred Covington | as | Sheriff Bentley |
| | Crew list: | | Ján Kadár (Director) | | Howard Fast (Writer) | | David Zelag Goodman (Writer) |
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Review
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. |
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