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.
Directed by: Daniel Petrie
Written by: Lorraine Hansberry
Music by: Laurence Rosenthal
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, John Fiedler, Louis Gossett Jr., Steven Perry, Joel Fluellen, Louis Terrel
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1961-05-28
Runtime: 128 minutes
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