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      Cotton Comes to Harlem

      1970, Comedy/Drama, 1h 37m

      4 Reviews 1,000+ Ratings

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      Movie Info

      Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley (Calvin Lockhart), who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa. When New York City police officers Gravedigger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and Coffin Ed Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) look into O'Malley's scam, they learn that the cash is being smuggled inside a bale of cotton. But the police, O'Malley and lots of others find themselves scrambling when the money goes missing.

      • Rating: R

      • Genre: Comedy, Drama

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Ossie Davis

      • Producer: Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

      • Writer: Ossie Davis, Chester Himes, Arnold Perl

      • Release Date (Theaters):  wide

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      • Distributor: United Artists

      • Production Co: Formosa Productions

      • Sound Mix: Mono

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      • Aug 29, 2010

        One of the very earliest blaxploitation films (1970), and not the best either (the books are better). S'ok.

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      • Nov 11, 2009

        Wasn't as good as I thought it was gonna be.I mainly watched this movie cauz it had Redd Foxx but he was hardly in it

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      • Oct 16, 2009

        This is one of the funniest movies of the early 1970's. The story, the acting as well as the characters helped to make this a great film. In many ways this film was a preview of things to come due to the fact that the very next year with the premier of Shaft, the era of the "blaxploitation" film would begin. Also, you have to wonder if the team who created the Lethal Weapon series were somewhat inspired by this due to the fact that characters of Gravedigger and Coffin are somewhat reminiscent of Briggs and Murtaugh from that series. However, the thing that really made this fun was the brief appearance of Redd Foxx playing a character that was not dissimilar from the character that would earn him his biggest fame, Fred Sanford. This is definitely a lost classic.

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      • Jan 24, 2008

        It's no Coffy, but it's a lot of fun.

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