The Sun's Gonna Shine

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  • 2014
  • 9 hr
  • 7.0  (186)

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin' Hopkins' decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Folklorist/Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax called Blank's stunning and elegiac short on Hopkins' reminiscences of his youth "one of the three most important films on the South." Color. 10 minutes. 1969.

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Description
  • Genres
    Short
  • Cast
    Lightnin Hopkins
    Billy Bizor
    Wendell Anderson
  • Director
    Les Blank
  • Release Date
    2014
  • Runtime
    9 hr
  • IMDB Rating
    7.0  (186)
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