Adapted from Alice Childress' inspirational novel of the same name, director Ralph Nelson's sentimental addiction drama tells the story of an intelligent yet alienated ghetto youth seduced into the world of hard drugs. Unable to stand being in the same apartment as his gruff but caring foster-father ...more
Year: 1977 | Running Time: 107 minutes
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$13.99HERO AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A SANDWICH / (DOL)
- Cicely Tyson - Sweets
- Paul Winfield - Butler
- Larry B. Scott - Benjie
- Helen Martin - Mrs. Bell
- Glynn E. Turman - Nigeria
- David Groh - Cohen
- Kevin Hooks - Tiger
- Kenneth Green - Jimmy Lee
- Harold Sylvester - Doctor
- Erin Blunt - Carwell
- Claire Brennan - Social Worker
- Arthur French - Guard
- Bill Cobbs - Bartender
- Sheila Wills - Admission Clerk
- Ralph Nelson - Director
- Hal De Windt - Producer
- Robert B. Radnitz - Producer
- Alice Childress - Screenwriter
- Alice Childress - Book Author
- Nedra Watt - Costume Designer
- Reuben Watt - First Assistant Director
- Fred A. Chulack - Editor
- Tom McIntosh - Composer (Music Score)
- Walter Scott Herndon - Production Designer
- Frank Stanley - Cinematographer
- Cheryal Kearney - Set Designer
- Wiliam L. McCaughey - Sound/Sound Designer









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