01 October 1973 Factual 37 mins
Featuring the stories and music of seminal Cajun musicians "Bois Sec" Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, Dry Wood is a short, vibrant documentary portrait of life, food, music and festivity in the Louisiana Delta from the singular Les Blank. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.
Watch the official Dry Wood 1973 trailer in HD below or find more Dry Wood videos on Vidimovie.
United States 01 October 1973
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More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Dry Wood:
A film by Les Blank and Maureen Gosling. Get entire film here: The featured music in this Les Blank film is that of “Bois ...
A glimpse into the life food and Mardi Gras celebrations of black Creoles in French Louisiana featuring the stories and music of "Bois Sec" Ardoin and Canray ...
A glimpse into the life food and Mardi Gras celebrations of black Creoles in French Louisiana featuring the stories and music of "Bois Sec" Ardoin and Canray ...
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1973:
09 March 1973
It is 1905. The police director gets Jindrich Legenda (Eduard Cupák) shadowed as, yet Legenda had served his sentence for a burglary, the jewels have not been found.
26 January 1973
Father of English literature, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, involved in storytelling a rainy night at an inn.
14 September 1973
Don Serafin has a complex: to all the beautiful women always seen with a beard. To remove the complex and try to cure him, his friends will lead to Biarritz.
01 January 1973
The Stuntmen is a one-hour documentary for Australian TV written and directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith.
12 October 1973
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03 July 1973
In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.
23 November 1973
The story of a peasant whose harshness and bluntness only provoke disputes and anger, and his honesty and sense of truth and honor in conjunction with the previous qualities only exacerbate these disputes.
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