The story of the country and western singer Hank Williams.The story of the country and western singer Hank Williams.The story of the country and western singer Hank Williams.
John Alban
- Theatre Patron
- (uncredited)
David Armstrong
- Spectator
- (uncredited)
Phil Arnold
- Pie-Eating Contest Barker
- (uncredited)
Larry Barton
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (uncredited)
Harold Belfer
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
Charles Alvin Bell
- Manager
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaElvis Presley was considered for the role of Hank Williams but his first wife, Audrey Williams, vetoed the idea. She felt that Elvis would become the focus of the movie.
- GoofsIn the film, Hank is singing with a medicine show when the "Drifting Cowboys" band finds and recruits him. In actuality, he formed the band himself in 1947.
- Quotes
Hank Williams: Woman, who are you to tell me what I am? These are my friends. My kind of people!
- Alternate versionsWhen Turner Entertainment group edited the film for television, Hank Williams' mother Lillie and his second wife Billie Jean were completely removed. Also shown on TV in a colorized version.
- ConnectionsFeatured in MGM 40th Anniversary (1964)
Featured review
The movie is not based on fact, but rather a image spin. For example the last concert in the movie is to take place at 8 p.m. but people are arriving at noon -- the truth his Hank missed the 8 p.m. concert and had a 2 p.m. one the next day, which is the one where they announced his death. The movie claims he was "clean" or sober at the time of his death for several months, yet he had been hospitalized just two weeks before his death trying to sober him and kick his drug habit. The movie deals with his drinking problems but never mentions the drug habit, considering he died of a suspected overdose (as many as three shots of morphine just hours before he died) the movie never mentions it. The movie also implies he was still with his first wife at the time of his death, when he had remarried and refused to see his first wife.
If you take it as a work of fiction, it is fun, just no facts about a great singer who hated the stage.
If you take it as a work of fiction, it is fun, just no facts about a great singer who hated the stage.
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- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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