And Jones' reading of a poem about the River Niger - comparing the African river to the black race - is eloquent in its simplicity.īut for the rest, the film just doesn't ring true to human experience it's all too obviously a showcase for its unbelievably complicated situations. James Caan, the curly-haired tough guy known to movie fans as the hotheaded Sonny Corleone of The Godfather and to television audiences as both the dying. The family doctor ( Lou Gossett) also has some fine, understated scenes with Miss Tyson. Jones and Cicely Tyson have a confrontation during the preparations for their son's welcome home party, and we believe they know, love and tolerate each other. He has no feel for the tone of a scene, he encourages his performers in shameless overacting and he can't tell his story confidently or clearly. The scenes that work best are the ones where theĪctors are left more or less alone.
Walker's screenplay I suppose, but the direction by Krishna Shah is just terrible. Walker Stars Cicely Tyson James Earl Jones Louis Gossett Jr. That's mostly the fault of playwright Joseph A. Superficially that the movie looks more like a year of soap opera crowded into one film. Events take place so arbitrarily and are considered so Pulitzer, but the movie doesn't show why. Revolution or his family, it's not clear.Īs a play, "The River Niger" won a Tony and a Paul Koslo, James Earl Jones, Rafer Johnson, Slim Gaillard, Henry Fonda. Roger Earl Mosley is an American actor, director and writer best known for his role as the helicopter pilot Theodore 'T.C.' Calvin in the CBS Magnum, P.I. Before the movie's over, the son will have revealed he flunked out of flying school, the father will have ranted and raved and gone on a five-day drunk, the mother will have discovered she has incurable cancer, the gang will have gotten into a confrontation with the police and holed up in the Williams' living room, surrounded, and the father will have returned home in time to read an epic poem and sacrifice himself for either the Robert Culp, Paul Winfield, Dorian Harewood, Roger E. Pseudo-revolutionary street gang turn up, too, and one of them makes a half-hearted assault on the girl,Īpparently for no better reason than to inspireīut we're only getting warmed up. Given the weight of the other issues about to beĬonsidered, the movie's not ready for the SouthĪfrican problem. She's from South Africa, she says - although she doesn't explain how or why she got to the United States, and maybe that's just as well. Before he returns, his fiancee arrives at the home and introduces herself. And the son (Glenn Turman) is expected home any day from the Air Force.
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The grandmother (Hilda Haynes) has license to be a character: She sleep-walks in search of her bourbon bottle. The father ( James Earl Jones) is a painter, enthusiastic drinker, visionary and poet. Williams family in the Los Angeles ghetto. The movie concerns a few days in the life of the
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