The River Niger (1976)
Some rivers can't be dammed...some people won't be broken.
1976 · R · 1h 45m · Drama
Genres: Drama
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.
Director: Krishna Shah
Writers: Joseph A. Walker
Cinematography: Michael D. Margulies
Editor: Irving Lerner
Cast
James Earl Jones as Johnny WilliamsCicely Tyson as Mattie WilliamsLouis Gossett Jr. as Dr. Dudley StantonGlynn Turman as Jeff WilliamsJonelle Allen as Ann VanderguildRoger E. Mosley as Big Moe HayesRalph Wilcox as AlTeddy Wilson as ChipsCharles Weldon as SkeeterShirley Jo Finney as GailHilda Haynes as Wilhelmina Geneva BrowEd Crick as White Police LieutenantMore like this
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