Howard Rice

Brother John -- A black man returns to his home town in Alabama, just as his sister dies and black workers strike the town's leading industrial plant. He is thought to be an outside agitator until it is learned he is the messenger of death.

Sidney Poitier plays a mysterious stranger who arrives in a small town teeming with anger, distrust and prejudice. It is not until the very end that the townspeople learn his true agenda and where he comes from.

A black man returns to his home town in Alabama, just as his sister dies and black workers strike the town's leading industrial plant. He is thought to be an outside agitator until it is learned he is the messenger of death.