The best Roy Acuff’s music movies

Roy Acuff

Roy Acuff

15/09/1903- 23/11/1992
Today we present the best Roy Acuff’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Roy Acuff’s movies.

Coal Miner's Daughter

Coal Miner's Daughter
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 07/03/1980
  • Character: Roy Acuff (uncredited)
Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.

Grand Ole Opry

Grand Ole Opry
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 25/06/1940
  • Character: Roy Acuff
Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.

Home in San Antone

Home in San Antone
4.8/10
  • Genre: MusicWestern
  • Release: 14/04/1949
  • Character: Roy Acuff aka Jack Jones
Posing as unemployed musicians,Roy Acuff (Roy Acuff) and his Smoky Mountain Boys (The Smoky Mountain Boys), are being helped by Ted Gibson (Bill Edwards), owner of the Harmony Inn in San Antonio, Texas. Gibson is impoverished because he keeps buying his kleptomaniac Uncle Zeke (Lloyd Corrigan)out of trouble, supports his Ma (Dorothy Vaughan), and Grandpa ('George Cleveland'). He wants to marry Jean Wallace (Lyn Thomas) , and doesn't know that Acuff and his musicians are traveling incognito for the radio show "Who Am I Helping?" If he guesses their identity, he wins $100,000.

Cowboy Canteen

Cowboy Canteen
6.5/10
Song and comedy revue, featuring Western talents, along with a theatrical troupe taking their vacation on the Lazy B Ranch run by Steve Bradley. Steve is about to enter the army and he and Tex Coulter compete for the love of Connie Grey.

Opry Video Classics: Pioneers

Opry Video Classics: Pioneers
The Carter Family, Roy Acuff and the Sons of the Pioneers belong to a select group of the earliest and most successful country recording artists. Pioneers spotlights them all doing such signature songs as Keep On the Sunny Side, Wabash Cannonball and Tumbling Tumbleweeds, alongside the influential blue-grass bands of Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs. And when Grandpa Jones stomps through Good Old Mountain Dew, you won't be able to sit down.

O, My Darling Clementine

O, My Darling Clementine
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 31/12/1943
  • Character: Sheriff Roy Acuff
"Dapper Dan" Franklin and his small troupe of actors become stranded in the small town of Harmony, Tennessee. The town is shackled by Blue Laws imposed upon it by a City Council under the influence of their domineering wives. Harry Cheshire is under the thumb of his sister Abigail Uppington. One look at "Pappy's" daughter Clementine, and Dan decides to stay in Harmony...Blue Laws or no.

Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music

Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music
7.9/10
No single figure in American music so dominated a genre as did Bill Monroe with bluegrass. BILL MONROE: FATHER OF BLUEGRASS MUSIC features performances by Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys, Lester Flatt, Emmylou Harris, Paul McCartney, the Osborne Brothers, Dolly Parton, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, John Hartford and a once-in-a-lifetime Blue Grass Boys reunion featuring Del McCoury, Chubby Wise and Bill Keith. The film features archival footage and rare 1990s performances from Monroe's final years including many of the greatest songs from his six decades of recording.

Welcome to the Club: The Women of Rockabilly

Welcome to the Club: The Women of Rockabilly
7.7/10
Sure, Elvis was the King, but who was the Queen? The Women Of Rockabilly – Welcome To The Club is a documentary search for the "Female Elvis", as we meet the women of rockabilly music and explore the "what-if’s?" and "what-now’s" of their careers. Brenda Lee, Wanda Jackson, Janis Martin and a sassy cast of lesser but no less colorful pretenders to the throne describe their trailblazing days when they were the embodiment of exuberance, sexuality and defiance in a world that wasn’t quite ready for them. A rockin’ feature documentary by Beth Harrington.

Night Train to Memphis

Night Train to Memphis
7.1/10
A mountain community is thrown into turmoil as the townspeople debate the advantages and disadvantages of having a railroad.

Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues

Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues
7.2/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryMusic
  • Release: 23/06/2004
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
The authoritative documentary on Country Music's most influential figure.

Bluegrass Country Soul

Bluegrass Country Soul
8.5/10
Bluegrass Country Soul captures the sights, sounds, and magic of this three-day outdoor festival, the first of its kind, featuring bluegrass veterans and future stars alike sharing the primitive wood and cinder block stage. This documentary does more than just capture on of the largest bluegrass festivals of that decade, it's also an interesting mixture of live performances, interviews, impromptu jam sessions and crowd footage of live music set in a small town surrounded by the now long gone red clay and tobacco shacks of North Carolina.

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