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The River Niger is a Tony Award-winning play turned into a movie. It features James Earl Jones as a house painter/poet who struggles to support his cancer-plagued wife (Cicely Tyson). This is a realistic portrayal of the difficulties encountered in the poverty-stricken ghetto.