The River Niger
(1976)

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

Released: 1976-04-14

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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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James Earl Jones

as Johnny Williams

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Cicely Tyson

as Mattie Williams

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Louis Gossett Jr.

as Dr. Dudley Stanton

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Glynn Turman

as Jeff Williams

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Jonelle Allen

as Ann Vanderguild

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Roger E. Mosley

as Big Moe Hayes

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Hilda Haynes

as Wilhelmina Geneva Brow

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Ed Crick

as White Police Lieutenant

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