
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.
Cast

Sidney Poitier
Walter Lee Younger

Claudia McNeil
Lena Younger

Ruby Dee
Ruth Younger

Diana Sands
Beneatha Younger

Ivan Dixon
Asagai

John Fiedler
Mark Lindner

Louis Gossett Jr.
George Murchison

Steven Perry
Travis Younger

Joel Fluellen
Bobo
Louis Terrel
Herman

Roy Glenn
Willie Harris
George DeNormand
Employer (uncredited)

Bob Sweeney
Insurance Company Agent (uncredited)
Thomas D. Jones
Chauffeur (uncredited)
Rudolph Monroe
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Ray Stubbs
Bartender (uncredited)

David Susskind
On-screen Trailer Narrator (uncredited)
Crew

Daniel Petrie
Director

Lorraine Hansberry
Screenplay, Theatre Play
William A. Lyon
Editor
Paul Weatherwax
Editor

Charles Lawton Jr.
Director of Photography
Sam Nelson
Assistant Director
Stephen Shalom
Executive Producer
Ronald H. Gilbert
Producer

David Susskind
Producer
Philip Rose
Producer
Richard H. Kline
Camera Operator
Helen Hunt
Hairstylist
Ben Lane
Makeup Artist
George Cooper
Sound
Charles J. Rice
Sound

Laurence Rosenthal
Original Music Composer
Louis Diage
Set Decoration
Carl Anderson
Art Direction
Arthur Morton
Orchestrator
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