CINEMA: Bound for Boredom

BOUND FOR GLORY

Directed by HAL ASHBY Screenplay by ROBERT GETCHELl

This land may belong to you and me, but it does not look as if it's going to belong to Bound for Glory, the soporific biopic about Woody Guthrie, the folk singer who wrote that familiar and stirring line.

Guthrie was an itchy-footed sign painter from Oklahoma who, like a lot of his neighbors, hit the road when the Dust Bowl and the Depression coincided to ravage his native ground. There were plenty of rough spots in his path, but he used these abrasions...

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