

“Nothing But a Man has the violence, passion, tenderness of a Negro man and a girl in a smoldering southern town!”
Railroad laborer Duff Anderson struggles to maintain his dignity and marriage to a preacher's daughter in the racially segregated South.
Directed by Michael Roemer
User score
40 votes

Released
December 27, 1964
1h 35m
English

Ivan Dixon
Duff Anderson

Abbey Lincoln
Josie

Julius Harris
Will Anderson

Gloria Foster
Lee

Martin Priest
Mill Worker
Leonard Parker
Frankie

Yaphet Kotto
Jocko
Stanley Greene
Rev. Dawson
Helen Lounck
Effie Simms
Helene Arrindell
Doris
Walter Wilson
Car Owner
Milton Williams
Pop

Mel Stewart
Riddick
Marshal Tompkin
Revivalist
Alfred Puryear
Barney
Ed Rowan
Willie

Tom Ligon
Teenager

William Jordan
Teenager
Dorothy Hall
Soloist

Gertrude Jeannette
Mrs. Dawson