The Liberators (1987)
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The Liberators, an ambitious 1987 entry in ABC's Disney Sunday Movie anthology series, was founded on fact. The film begins on a Kentucky plantation in the years before the Civil War. Robert Carradine, nephew of the plantation owner, has grown up with slave Larry B. Scott. Forced by the social structure of the era into a master/slave relationship, Carradine and Scott choose instead to head northward. Befriending a Quaker abolitionist (James Mainprize), the two friends become involved with the Underground Railroad, helping thousands of slaves escape to freedom. A romantic entanglement involving Scott and a lovely slave girl nearly costs the boys their own freedom as The Liberators races towards its climax. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Director(s):
- Kenneth Johnson
Synopsis of The Liberators
The Liberators, an ambitious 1987 entry in ABC's Disney Sunday Movie anthology series, was founded on fact. The film begins on a Kentucky plantation in the years before the Civil War. Robert Carradine, nephew of the plantation owner, has grown up with slave Larry B. Scott. Forced by the social structure of the era into a master/slave relationship, Carradine and Scott choose instead to head northward. Befriending a Quaker abolitionist (James Mainprize), the two friends become involved with the Underground Railroad, helping thousands of slaves escape to freedom. A romantic entanglement involving Scott and a lovely slave girl nearly costs the boys their own freedom as The Liberators races towards its climax. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Liberators
- James Mainprize - Levi Coffin
- Cynthia Dale - Elizabeth
- Rene Jones - Lilah
- Bumper Robinson - Adam
- Caryn Ward
- Robert Carradine
- James Douglas - Crocker
- Ken Pogue - Uncle Avery
- Larry B. Scott
- Denis Forest - Brandt
- Director(s):
- Kenneth Johnson
- Writer(s):
- Kenneth Johnson
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