Nicholas Webster
Director


An idealistic young man returns to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. He brings his fiancée Lutiebelle, but hopes to convince the plantation owner that she is really his cousin to secure the family inheritance. Aiding the comic complications are his family members Missy and Gitlow and the plantation owner's endearing but ineffectual son Charlie.
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Nicholas Webster
Director

Ossie Davis
Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson

Ruby Dee
Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins

Godfrey Cambridge
Gitlow Judson

Hilda Haynes
Missy Judson

Beah Richards
Idella Landy

Alan Alda
Charlie Cotchipee

Ralph Roberts
Deputy

Sorrell Booke
Ol' Cap', Stonewall Jackson Cotchipee
Charles Welch
Sheriff

Ossie Davis
Writer