Bound for Glory (film)

Bound for Glory is a 1976 American film directed by Hal Ashby and loosely adapted by Robert Getchell from Woody Guthries 1943 autobiography Bound for Glory. The film stars David Carradine as folk singer Woody Guthrie and Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, John Lehne, JiTu Cumbuka and Randy Quaid.

In the Depression 1930s, Midwesterner Guthrie David Carradine plays music locally but cannot make enough as a sign painter to support his wife Melinda Dillon and children. With only his paintbrushes, Woody joins the migration westward from the Dust Bowl to supposedly greener California pastures via boxcar and hitchhiking. Much of the film is based on Guthries attempt to humanize the desperate Okie Dust Bowl refugees in California during the Great Depression.Leonard Roesenman, who adapted several of Guthries songs for the film, is believed to have done a disingenuous job by making some of Guthries songs unrecognizable on the soundtrack. In the film, David Carradine, who played the role of Woody Guthrie, performed the songs on the soundtrack with his original voice, belittling the true style, sound and form of an authentic Guthrie song and tends to confuse the listener. Another misfortune found in the redoings of Guthrie songs from the film was that his songs that were incorporated into the film itself, turned out to showcase other singers who werent Guthrie, further withholding the musicians form, style, and vision. After the release of the film, there followedLPs that showcased Guthries music. ........

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