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.

6.7

99 min

Cast

Ossie Davis

as Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson

Ruby Dee

as Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins

Godfrey Cambridge

as Gitlow Judson

Hilda Haynes

as Missy Judson

Beah Richards

as Idella Landy

Alan Alda

as Charlie Cotchipee

Sorrell Booke

as Ol' Cap', Stonewall Jackson Cotchipee

Director

Nicholas Webster