Cane River (film)

Cane River
Directed by Horace B. Jenkins
Produced by Horace B. Jenkins
Written by Horace B. Jenkins
Release dates
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. 1 2 3 Staff (December 6, 1982). "Horace Jenkins, 'Cane River' Maker". Chicago Tribune. Associated Press. Retrieved October 13, 2015.
  2. Staff (December 7, 1982). "Horace B. Jenkins, 42; His Films Won Awards". The New York Times. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
  3. Anderson, John (August 20, 2014). "The Movie Crypt at the Top of the Stairs". The New York Times. Retrieved December 17, 2014.

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