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The River Niger (1976)

Directed by Krishna Shah

Overview

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.

Rated R | Length 105 minutes

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