Brother John (film)
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| Directed by | James Goldstone |
| Produced by | Joel Glickman |
| Written by | Ernest Kinoy |
| Starring |
Sidney Poitier Will Geer Bradford Dillman |
| Music by | Quincy Jones |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release dates | March 24, 1971 |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Brother John is a 1971 drama film about an enigmatic African-American man who returns to his Alabama hometown every time one of his loved ones is about to die.
Plot
His arrival into town this time is clouded by unrest at the local factory when workers seek to unionize, and local authorities wrongly suspect John as a fomenter in that cause. The suspicions of the police and Doc Thomas' son, a lawyer for the company, grow as they uncover John's passport filled with stamps of visas from the many countries that he had visited, even those that few Americans are allowed to travel to; and they realize that he speaks and writes in the different languages of the countries to which he had traveled. Only Doc Thomas suspects that John's real purpose is something else.
Cast
- Sidney Poitier as John Kane
- Will Geer as Doc Thomas
- Bradford Dillman as Lloyd Thomas
- Beverly Todd as Louisa MacGill
- Ramon Bieri as Orly Ball
- Warren J. Kemmerling as George
- Lincoln Kilpatrick as Charley Gray
- P. Jay Sidney as Reverend MacGill
- Richard Ward as Frank
- Paul Winfield as Henry Birkart
- Zara Cully as Miss Nettie
- Michael Bell as Cleve
- Howard Rice as Jimmy
- Darlene Rice as Marsha
- Harry Davis as Turnkey
- Lynn Hamilton as Sarah
External links
- Brother John at the Internet Movie Database
- Brother John (film) at the TCM Movie Database
- Brother John (film) at allmovie
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