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A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Directed by Daniel Petrie
“The prize-winning drama that warms the screen with its people and its passions...”
Drama, Romance · 2h 08m
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.
Cast
Sidney Poitier
Walter Lee Younger
Claudia McNeil
Lena Younger
Ruby Dee
Ruth Younger
Diana Sands
Beneatha Younger
Ivan Dixon
Asagai
John Fiedler
Mark Lindner
Louis Gossett Jr.
George Murchison
Steven Perry
Travis Younger
Joel Fluellen
Bobo
L
Louis Terrel
Herman
Roy Glenn
Willie Harris
G
George DeNormand
Employer (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Daniel Petrie
- Screenplay
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Director of Photography
- Charles Lawton Jr.
- Original Music Composer
- Laurence Rosenthal
- Editor
- William A. Lyon, Paul Weatherwax
- Producer
- Ronald H. Gilbert, David Susskind, Philip Rose
Details
- Release date
- 1961-05-28
- Runtime
- 2h 08m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Columbia Pictures
- Budget
- $1,500,000