
“The prize-winning drama that warms the screen with its people and its passions...”
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.
Release Date: 5/28/1961
Runtime: 128 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Daniel Petrie
Budget: $1.5M
0Companies: Columbia Pictures
Countries: United States of America

Sidney Poitier
Walter Lee Younger

Claudia McNeil
Lena Younger

Ruby Dee
Ruth Younger

Diana Sands
Beneatha Younger

Ivan Dixon
Asagai

John Fiedler
Mark Lindner

Louis Gossett Jr.
George Murchison

Steven Perry
Travis Younger

Joel Fluellen
Bobo
Louis Terrel
Herman

Roy Glenn
Willie Harris
George DeNormand
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