Mister Johnson
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For other uses, see Mr. Johnson (disambiguation).
| Mister Johnson | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Bruce Beresford |
| Produced by | Michael Fitzgerald |
| Written by | Joyce Cary, William Boyd |
| Starring | Maynard Eziashi Pierce Brosnan Edward Woodward Sola Adeyemi Beatie Edney Femi Fatoba Denis Quilley Hubert Ogunde |
| Music by | Georges Delerue |
| Cinematography | Peter James |
| Editing by | Humphrey Dixon |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox Avenue Pictures Productions |
| Release date(s) | 1990 |
| Running time | 97 min |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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Mister Johnson is a motion picture from 1990 based on the 1939 novel by Joyce Cary.
The film's cast featured Maynard Eziashi, Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward, Sola Adeyemi, Beatie Edney, Femi Fatoba, Denis Quilley and Hubert Ogunde. The film was shot in Toro, Nigeria.
In addition to the film, there was a 1956 stage version starring, among others, Robert Earl Jones.
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The thorough white supremacy and racism in Joyce Carey's novel thoroughly infuses the motion picture to such a great extent that Mister Johnson (the motion picture) might very well be the most culturally chauvinist production since "Birth of a Nation".
- Mister Johnson at the Internet Broadway Database
- Mister Johnson at the Internet Movie Database
- Mister Johnson at Allmovie
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