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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Cast

Ossie Davis

Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson

Ruby Dee

Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins

Godfrey Cambridge

Gitlow Judson

Beah Richards

Idella Landy

Alan Alda

Charlie Cotchipee

Sorrell Booke

Ol' Cap', Stonewall Jackson Cotchipee