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| Fred Williamson | ... | Nigger Charley | |
| D'Urville Martin | ... | Toby | |
| Don Pedro Colley | ... | Joshua | |
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Thomas Anderson | ... | Shadow |
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Jerry Gatlin | ... | Sheriff Rhinehart |
| Alan Gifford | ... | Hill Carter | |
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Will Hussung | ... | Dr. Saunders |
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Gertrude Jeannette | ... | Theo |
| Fred Lerner | ... | Ollokot | |
| Marcia McBroom | ... | Leda | |
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Bill Moor | ... | Walker |
| Tricia O'Neil | ... | Sarah Lyons | |
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Tom Pemberton | ... | Willie |
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Keith Prentice | ... | Niles Fowler |
| Douglas Rowe | ... | Dewey Lyons (as Doug Rowe) | |
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A slave kills a white man in self-defense and heads West towards freedom, pursued by a professional slave hunter.
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Somebody warn the West. Nigger Charley ain't running no more.Genres:
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9 October 1972 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
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Music and Lyrics by John Bennings
Sung by Lloyd Price
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In Sept. 1972, Paramount was widely distributing this film on a double bill with Hannie Caulder (1971) starring Raquel Welch. See more »Soundtracks
The Legend of Nigger CharleyMusic and Lyrics by John Bennings
Sung by Lloyd Price
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Though SOUL OF N*GGER CHARLEY is more professionally constructed and filmed, I found it less interesting than LEGEND OF N*GGER CHARLEY. To begin with, Fred Williamson is actually called upon to do a bit of acting in LEGEND. Though the character transition is rushed, Williamson initially portrays Charley as hard-working and respectful (his Master has always treated he and his mother with kindness), and later (after having his promised freedom stolen away from him by the cruel, presumptive heir to his Master's estate), as a defiant, avenging hero. In SOUL, on the other hand, he's pretty much a defiant hero from beginning to end, his performance varying only when called upon to show a bit of sadness and remorse near the end.
Further, LEGEND struck me as the more balanced of the two films. In SOUL, there is not a single white man in a featured role who is not portrayed as a villain. In fact, even in smaller roles, the only white men who are not evil are the Quakers who appear very briefly, denying Charley their assistance due to a vow of non-violence. Contrast this with LEGEND in which three of the six white men in featured roles (the original Master, the Sheriff, and the farmer who married a half-breed) are not portrayed as racist. They may be ineffectual, but they're not evil men.
All that said, the story in LEGEND is padded and truly scattered. I would definitely watch it again though... something I cannot say for SOUL.
Finally, I must note the irony that the version of LEGEND on the BLAX FILM disc censors the words "shit" and "ass", but not N*GGER, whereas IMDb allows both "shit" and "ass", but not "the N-word", despite its being in the title of the film!