Cane River (film)
| Cane River | |
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| Directed by | Horace B. Jenkins |
| Produced by | Horace B. Jenkins |
| Written by | Horace B. Jenkins |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Cane River is a 1982 film written, produced, and directed by Horace B. Jenkins.
Plot
The film was described as "a contemporary story of a black man returning to his native Louisiana and trying to reclaim some of his past".[1]
Production
Horace B. Jenkins filmed Cane River in New Orleans and Natchitoches Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The film featured black actors and actresses.[1]
Release
Cane River premiered in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1982. Jenkins sought to have a national distribution of the film and its soundtrack, but he died on December 3, 1982 at age 42.[1] Cane River was scheduled to screen in New York City in February 1982,[2] but with his death, the film went unreleased. Richard Pryor, who saw a screening of Cane River before Jenkins's death, had offered to place the film with the studio Warner Bros., with whom he had an agreement to distribute films made by African-Americans, but its producers declined the offer. The film was not publicly available until 2014, when the film preservation organization IndieCollect uncovered a negative copy from the vaults of DuArt Film and Video.[3]
References
- 1 2 3 Staff (December 6, 1982). "Horace Jenkins, 'Cane River' Maker". Chicago Tribune (Associated Press). Retrieved October 13, 2015.
- ↑ Staff (December 7, 1982). "Horace B. Jenkins, 42; His Films Won Awards". The New York Times. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
- ↑ Anderson, John (August 20, 2014). "The Movie Crypt at the Top of the Stairs". The New York Times. Retrieved December 17, 2014.