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Mister Johnson. (film) Mister Johnson is a 1990 American drama film based on the 1939 novel by Irish author Joyce Cary. The film, set in 1929, stars first-time [1] actor Maynard Eziashi as a Nigerian who works as a clerk for the British civil service and adopts the style of the British colonialists in the belief that he is a true Englishman.
- $1,464,242
- Avenue Pictures
- Michael Fitzgerald
- Georges Delerue
Apr 19, 1991 · When the novelist Joyce Cary went out to Nigeria to join the British colonial civil service in 1913, there was no question in his mind, and in the minds of most British, that he was doing a good thing, representing the world's greatest democracy in an African backwater much in need of improvement. When Cary wrote Mister Johnson, the fourth of his African novels, in 1939, some questions had ...
Mister Johnson: Directed by Bruce Beresford. With Maynard Eziashi, Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward, Beatie Edney. In 1923, a local resident of British Colonial Nigeria tries to be equal with the colonial administration.
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- Drama
- Bruce Beresford
- 1991-04
Jun 8, 1991 · PUBLISHED: June 8, 1991 at 4:00 a.m. | UPDATED: ... Mister Johnson is the story of an ambitious, well-meaning clerk caught between two cultures in colonial West Africa in 1923.
Mister Johnson, based on the 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot. A decade after he broke through with Breaker Morant, Australian director Bruce Beresford made another acclaimed film about the effects of colonialism on the individual.
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Shown at Berlin Film Festival (in competition) February 15-26, 1991. Shown at Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund August 18-24, 1991. Completed shooting March 22, 1990. Began shooting January 15, 1990. Released in United States Spring March 22, 1991. Released in United States March 29, 1991 (Los Angeles) Released in United States April 19 ...
Sep 24, 2015 · —Joyce Cary, Mister Johnson. M ister Johnson (1990) is a film that rewards and perhaps even requires more than one viewing, for its tone is elusive and its outcome a shock. The title character is a man in a white suit whose ambition and schemes will put him at odds with the two communities in which he moves.
