King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
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| King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | |
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| Directed by | Sidney Lumet Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| Produced by | Richard Kaplan Ely A. Landau |
| Narrated by | Paul Newman Joanne Woodward Ruby Dee James Earl Jones |
| Release date(s) | 1970 |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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King: a Filmed Record... Montgomery To Memphis is a 1970 documentary film which tells the life story of Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr., presented in the form of newsreel footage and segments of recordings by Dr. King, framed by celebrity narrators, including Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ruby Dee, James Earl Jones, Clarence Williams III, Burt Lancaster, Ben Gazzara, Charlton Heston, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Marlon Brando and Paul Winfield.
The movie was directed by Sidney Lumet and Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Richard Kaplan and Ely Landau.
When first released, it was shown in theaters as a "one-time-only" event on March 24, 1970. The documentary, which ran an unprecedented 3 hours and 5 minutes, had an equally large admission price of $5 (Equal to $28 in 2007). All proceeds were donated to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Special Fund. It was later shown on commercial television (unedited and with limited interruption), and finally released onto home video on the Pacific Arts label, where the celebrity narrations (save for Harry Belafonte's introduction) were removed, and ran for 1 hour and 43 minutes.
It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary, Features. In 1999 the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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