{{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2023}} {{Infobox film | name = Part 2, Sounder | image = | caption = | director = William A. Graham | producer = {{Plainlist| * Terry D. Nelson * Robert B. Radnitz (uncredited) }} | screenplay = Lonne Elder III | based_on = {{Based on|''Sounder''|William H. Armstrong}} | starring = Harold Sylvester<br>Ebony Wright<br>Taj Mahal<br>Annazette Chase<br>Darryl Young | music = Taj Mahal<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|last=Eder|first=Richard|title=Film: A Sequel:'Sounder Part 2' Is Gloomy and Full of Sentimentality|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/10/14/archives/film-a-sequelsounder-part-2-is-gloomy-and-full-of-sentimentality.html|date=October 14, 1976|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=May 25, 2017}}</ref> | cinematography = Urs Furrer | editing = Sidney Levin | studio = Radnitz/Mattel Productions | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1976|10|13}} | runtime = 98 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }}
'''''Part 2, Sounder''''' is a 1976 American drama film directed by William A. Graham.<ref>{{cite news|last=Moorehead|first=Jim|title='Sounder 2' Reminder Of First|date=October 30, 1976|newspaper=Evening Independent|location=St. Petersburg, Florida|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19761030&id=-kVQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UVgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4123,3353489&hl=en|via=Google News|access-date=May 25, 2017}}</ref> It is the sequel to the 1972 Oscar-nominated film ''Sounder'', which in turn is based on William H. Armstrong's Newbery Award-winning novel of the same name.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pearson|first=Howard|title='Sounder 2' to be in S.L. theaters in fall season|date=September 30, 1976|newspaper=Deseret News|location=Salt Lake City|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19760930&id=wM5SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=X38DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6729,7982330&hl=en|via=Google News|access-date=May 25, 2017}}</ref>
Although Lonne Elder III and Robert B. Radnitz returned as screenwriter and producer respectively, neither Martin Ritt nor any of the cast members from the first film participated in the sequel, with the exception of Ted Airhart who reprised his role as Mr. Perkins and Taj Mahal, who reprised his role as Ike and returned as composer.<ref name="nyt" /><ref>{{cite news|last=Marzella|first=Michael|title=Surgery hurts sequel with delicate heart|date=November 1, 1976|newspaper=St. Petersburg Times|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19761101&id=Wh4MAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fF0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6562,362508&hl=en|via=Google News|access-date=May 25, 2017}}</ref> According to Bob McCann, the film was "barely released."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X7ZYsnTPIhwC&q=annazette+chase&pg=PA78|last=McCann|first=Bob|title=Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television|year=2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786458042}} page 78</ref>
==Plot== {{no plot|date=February 2019}}
==Cast== *Harold Sylvester as Nathan Lee Morgan *Ebony Wright as Rebecca Morgan *Taj Mahal as Ike Phillips *Darryl Young as David Lee Morgan *Erica Young as Josie Mae *Ted Airhart as Mr. Perkins *Annazette Chase as Camille Johnson
==Reception== Roger Ebert gave the film two stars.<ref>{{cite news |title=Part 2, Sounder |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |date=October 26, 1976 |url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/part-2-sounder-1976 |access-date=May 25, 2017 |via=RogerEbert.com}}</ref> Richard Eder, reviewing the film for ''The New York Times'', called it "unrelievedly didactic" and "a depressed kind of film, with a lot of gloominess and teeth-gritting".<ref name="nyt" />
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Category:1976 films Category:1976 drama films Category:African-American drama films Category:American drama films Category:American sequel films Category:1976 English-language films Category:Films based on children's books Category:Films directed by William Graham (director) Category:Films set in Louisiana Category:Films set in the 1930s Category:Films shot in Louisiana Category:1976 American films Category:English-language drama films
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