PURLIE VICTORIOUS aka Gone Are The Days – 1963
Gone Are the Days!
Overview
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.
Cast
Ossie Davis
Ruby Dee
Godfrey Cambridge
Hilda Haynes
Beah Richards
Alan Alda
Sorrell Booke
Crew
Brock Peters
Boris Kaufman
Ralph Rosenblum
Ossie Davis
Kim Swados
Nicholas Webster
Nicholas Webster
Starring Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, and Alan Alda. This is the film version of the successful stage play written by Davis who plays Purlie Victorious, a flamboyant, self ordained minister. Along with wife Lutibelle (Ruby Dee), he returns to Georgia to buy an old barn and convert it into a church. He seeks out Captain Cotchipec Sorrel Booke, the aging plantation owner entrusted with a 500 inheritance left by the preacher’s sister after her death. Lutibelle is talked into posing as a long-lost cousin to get the money quickly from the dying landowner.
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