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.

• DirectorKrishna Shah
• Release14 April 1976
• GenreDrama
• Duration1h 45m
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• Rate
  

  6.75
  4 reviews
• Productions

  River Niger Company, Asanti Productions Inc., Gossett Enterprises