Brother John (1971)
With Sidney Poitier, Will Geer, Bradford Dillman, Beverly Todd, Harry Davis, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Michael Bell, Paul Winfield
Directed by James Goldstone
Brother John is a 1971 American drama film about John Kane, an enigmatic African-American man who shows up every time a relative is about to die. When he returns to his Hackley, Alabama hometown as his sister is dying of cancer, it incites the suspicion of notable town officials.
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