

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.
Cast

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

Sorrell Booke
Ol' Cap', Stonewall Jackson Cotchipee
Storyline
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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