Release Date

14 Apr, 1976

Runtime

01:45: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Some rivers can't be dammed...some people won't be broken.

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.

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Actors

James Earl Jones

Cicely Tyson

Louis Gossett Jr.

Glynn Turman

Jonelle Allen

Roger E. Mosley

Ralph Wilcox

Teddy Wilson

Charles Weldon

Shirley Jo Finney

Hilda Haynes

Ed Crick

Tony Burton

Zakes Mokae

Crew

Krishna Shah

War

Dan Perri

Reuben Cannon

Frank Lombardo

Irving Lerner

Sidney Beckerman

Michael D. Margulies

Seymour Klate

Joseph A. Walker

Ike Jones

Eddie M. Barron