"The Liberators" is an episode of The Disney Sunday Movie. It originally aired on ABC on February 8, 1987.
Synopsis[]
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. John Fairfield, nephew of the plantation owner, has grown up with slave Bill Jackson. Forced by the social structure of the era into a master/slave relationship, Fairfield and Jackson choose instead to head northward.
Befriending a Quaker abolitionist, Levi Coffin, the two friends become involved with the Underground Railroad, helping thousands of slaves escape to freedom. A romantic entanglement involving Jackson and a lovely slave girl nearly costs the boys their own freedom as The Liberators races towards its climax.
Cast[]
- Robert Carradine ... John Fairfield
- Larry B. Scott ... Bill Jackson
- Cynthia Dale ... Elizabeth
- Renée Jones ... Lilah
- Bumper Robinson ... Adam
- Caryn Ward ... Emily
- James B. Douglas ... Crocker Giddings
- Denis Forest ... Brandt
- James Mainprize ... Levi Coffin
- Marsha Moreau ... Angelica Giddings
- Ken Pogue ... Uncle Avery
- Chris Wiggins ... Flour Merchant
- Tonya Lee Williams ... Jenny (as Tonya Williams)
- Barry Blake ... Patroler (as Barry Edward Blake)
- George Buza ... Store Owner
- Herb J. Chambers ... Jacob
- Alexander Chapman ... Joseph
- Gene Clark ... Gabriel
- Warren Davis ... Ticket Man
- Micheal Donaghue ... Rudolph (as Michael Donoghue)
- Arlene Duncan ... Amanda (as Arlene E. Duncan)
- Yohance Dyer ... Matthew
- Blain Fairman ... Sheriff
- Lorena Gale ... Emily's Mother
- Barbara Eve Harris ... Bill's Mother
- Paul Horruzey ... Young John
- David W. Hudson ... Boat Builder
- David Hughes ... Auctioneer
- Patricia Idlette ... Josie
- Nicholas Kilbertus ... Dinner Guest
- Gene Mack ... Fred
- Paul Mayers ... Young Black Man
- Andrew Moodie ... Emmanuel
- Benjamin Newton ... Young Bill
- Sandi Ross ... Mary
- G. Danovan Spence ... Joshua (as Danovan Spence)
- Henderson Walcott ... Jedidiah
- Maria del Mar ... (uncredited)
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