Product Details

• Actors: Avery Brooks, Rhetta Greene, Mason Adams, Lee Bryant, Art Evans
• Directors: Gordon Parks
• Writers: Lou Potter, Samm-Art Williams, Solomon Northup
• Producers: Shep Morgan, Yanna Kroyt Brandt
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Monterey Video
• VHS Release Date: November 11, 1998
• Run Time: 115 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1569940169
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #107,463 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A little known gem, January 3, 2007

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Plantinganut2000 "Spirit ain't worth spit wit... (Houston) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Solomon Northup's Odyssey - (aka "Half Slave, Half Free") [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a movie along the lines of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, but somehow more real, and therefore more moving. Based on a true story, a freed black man in the pre-civil war United States is kidnapped and returned to slavery. The hard choices he makes, the variety of people he meets, they all add up to an interesting film. Avery Brooks is just a wonderful actor and this movie proves he needs to be tapped for more work. If you have not seen this film, please do so. The only reason it's getting four stars is the movie sometimes comes off as pretentious, and I can't stand movies that try to be more than what they are. But Brooks work and the fair treatment of the way the south really operated in that time makes for an interesting film.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solomon Northrup's Oddesy, July 30, 2010

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Jimjamo "JJ" (Calif, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Solomon Northup's Odyssey - (aka "Half Slave, Half Free") [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I had viewed this on TV a long time ago and I just wanted to get a copy.