Bound for Glory is a 1976 American film directed by Hal Ashby and loosely adapted by Robert Getchell from Woody Guthrie's 1943 autobiography Bound for Glory. The film stars David Carradine as folk singer Woody Guthrie and Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, John Lehne, Ji-Tu Cumbuka and Randy Quaid.
Bound for Glory was the first motion picture in which inventor/operator Garrett Brown used his new Steadicam for filming moving scenes.Director of Photography Haskell Wexler won an Oscar for Best Cinematography (1976).
All of the main events and characters, except for Guthrie and his first wife, Mary, are entirely fictional. The film ends with Guthrie singing his most famous song, "God Blessed America" (subsequently retitled "This Land Is Your Land"), on his way to New York, but, in fact, the song was composed in New York in 1940 and forgotten by him until five years later.
In the Depression 1930s, Midwesterner Guthrie (David Carradine) plays music locally but cannot make enough as a sign painter to support his wife (Melinda Dillon) and children. With only his paintbrushes, Woody joins the migration westward from the Dust Bowl to supposedly greener California pastures via boxcar and hitchhiking. Much of the film is based on Guthrie's attempt to humanize the desperate Okie Dust Bowl refugees in California during the Great Depression.
Let’s riot!
Zionist’s illusions, state of confusion are decaying
away my mind! Feelings of hate, can’t get it straight-
Am I the only one of my kind? Criminal destruction,
chemical production makes aliens run rampant in the
night! Close the border, start the New Order-Gather
your guns it’s time to fight!
It’s a call to arms, all chance for reason is lost!
It’s a call to arms, my level of tolerance has been
crossed! It’s a call to arms, chaos takes over the
streets! It’s a call to arms, fight or cower in defeat!
Governmental sanctions, spreading infections-War is
declared now, our weapons are drawn! Rebel factions,
with direct action-Ready to meet the best head-on! Mass
inflation, multiracial infestation has turned our
streets to decay! Racial domination, swift termination
has become our only way!
It’s a call to arms, all chance for reason is lost!
It’s a call to arms, my level of tolerance has been
crossed! It’s a call to arms, chaos takes over the
streets! It’s a call to arms, fight or cower in defeat!
Let’s go!
It’s a call to arms, all chance for reason is lost!
It’s a call to arms, my level of tolerance has been
crossed! It’s a call to arms, chaos takes over the