The River Niger

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

105 mins
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.

James Earl Jones

Johnny Williams

Cicely Tyson

Mattie Williams

Louis Gossett Jr.

Dr. Dudley Stanton

Glynn Turman

Jeff Williams

Jonelle Allen

Ann Vanderguild

Roger E. Mosley

Big Moe Hayes

Hilda Haynes

Wilhelmina Geneva Brow

Ed Crick

White Police Lieutenant

Tony Burton

Black Policeman

Krishna Shah

Director

War

Music

Dan Perri

Title Designer

Frank Lombardo

Set Decoration

Michael D. Margulies

Director of Photography

Seymour Klate

Production Design

Ike Jones

Producer

Eddie M. Barron

Hairstylist

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