The River Niger

6.8
  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 105 min
  • Premiere: 1976. April 14.

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.

Discover

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

Art

Dan Perri

Title Designer

Seymour Klate

Production Design

Frank Lombardo

Set Decoration

Camera

Michael D. Margulies

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Eddie M. Barron

Hairstylist

Directing

Krishna Shah

Director

Editing

Production

Ike Jones

Producer

Sound

War

Music

Writing