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The River Niger (1976)
Directed by Krishna Shah
“Some rivers can't be dammed...some people won't be broken.”
Drama · 1h 45m
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.
Cast
James Earl Jones
Johnny Williams
Cicely Tyson
Mattie Williams
Louis Gossett Jr.
Dr. Dudley Stanton
Glynn Turman
Jeff Williams
J
Jonelle Allen
Ann Vanderguild
Roger E. Mosley
Big Moe Hayes
Ralph Wilcox
Al
Teddy Wilson
Chips
Charles Weldon
Skeeter
Shirley Jo Finney
Gail
H
Hilda Haynes
Wilhelmina Geneva Brow
Ed Crick
White Police Lieutenant
Crew
- Director
- Krishna Shah
- Writer
- Joseph A. Walker
- Director of Photography
- Michael D. Margulies
- Editor
- Irving Lerner
- Producer
- Ike Jones, Sidney Beckerman
Details
- Release date
- 1976-04-14
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- River Niger Company, Asanti Productions Inc., Gossett Enterprises