Gone Are the Days!
A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cousin in order to secure the family inheritance. To aid in the comic complications that follow are his family members Missy and Gitlow, and the plantation owners endearing (but ineffectual) son Charlie.
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Screenplay
Cast
Ossie Davis
Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson
Ruby Dee
Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins
Godfrey Cambridge
Gitlow Judson
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Hilda Haynes
Missy Judson
Beah Richards
Idella Landy
Alan Alda
Charlie Cotchipee
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Charles Welch
Sheriff
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Ralph Roberts
Deputy
Sorrell Booke
Ol' Cap', Stonewall Jackson Cotchipee
Boris Kaufman
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