Purlie Victorious

Love older cinema. Anything pretty much Ruby Dee and Ossie davis is in. Appreciate them and their acting talent and true life as a couple.

With the recent passing of Ossie Davis, I wanted to see some of his earlier works. As I expected his play, turned into film, was outstanding. He and Ruby Dee were always captivating and it's good to know that their chemistry was there from the start.Supporting characters, such as Alan Alda, were essential to this story line. Though, nowadays, I'd consider Mr. Cambridge's performance a bit bafoonish ... it flowed with the times and tone of the story. His part made for a better "read" than to actually "see" him play the part.Overrall, I'm glad I have it for my collection of black films to pass on to my two sons.

Ossie Davis wrote and acted in this film! I'm not sure if he was married to Ruby Dee at this time. Both my mother (95 years old), and I both enjoyed the movie, the music, and the actors. I was surprised to see both Alan Alda and Sorrell Booke in it as well!

Ossie Davis was indeed a master storyteller. I saw the play on broadway with Cleavon Little in the title role and Melba Moore as Lutiebelle. I saw the play on A&E with Robert Guilluame in the title role. But, Ossie was truly Purlie in every fiber of his being. The original title of this movie was Gone Are The Days when I saw it on television many years ago. I was so taken with his performance that I taped it on a reel to reel just to hear it over and over again. Now that I have the original on dvd my children can get to see what real acting is all about. And they get to see 'The Mayor' in his prime. Yes, from the beginning Ossie knew how to 'do the right thing'!

In this exuberant film Ossie Davis really shines. Godfrey Cambridge is superb as "Gitlow"(if only his singing was as great as his acting). Self ordained Rev. Purlie preaches amessage of "Freedom"! It strikes me a freedom of a dubious sort kind of like"Change" does today. The flow of the rhetoric throughout this film is a linguisticmarvel. Alan Alda has the only purely virtuous role in this film. This purity wasthreatened with his "Hind legs line" but then he had to communicate with hisConfederate flag displaying Pa somehow. This movie is well worth watching!

This in itself is a time capsule from the civil rights movement years. The performances are incomparable. Every American high school student should be required to view and discuss the significance of this movie, along with "To Kill A Mockingbird" and "A Family Thing," with regard to the history of race relations in these United States. "Purlie Victorious" stands as, among other things an extraordinary tribute not only to Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, but to all the cast members, living and dead.

I was hoping to get the version with Melba Moore and Robert Guillame (?sp), but this is good too

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Good nice movie good condition