Cadillac Records (2008) - '' Smokestack Lightnin' '' - Eamonn Walker (Howlin' Wolf : born Chester Arthur Burnett : June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976) Cadillac Records is a 2008 American biographical drama film written and directed by Darnell Martin. The film explores the musical era from the early 1940s to the late 1960s, chronicling the life of the influential Chicago-based record-company executive Leonard Chess, and a few of the musicians who recorded for Chess Records. The film stars Adrien Br