COTTON COMES TO HARLEM - BLU

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• Release Year: 1970
• Genre: Action, Comedy
• Plot: One of the most influential Soul Cinema pix ever to shoot onto the screen. Cotton Comes to Harlem spawned the blaxplotiation boom by delivering a 'refreshingly different detective action yarn with soul and humor' (Cue) and an unbeatable mix of 'fast paced adventure and comic lunacy' (Pacific Film Archive); ; Detectives 'Gravedigger' Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and 'Coffin Ed' Johnson (Raymond St. Jaques) are on the case and in everyone's face when they investigate Rev. Deke O'Malley(Calvin Lockhart) - a brother whose ' Back to Africa' campaign is nothing more than a big scam for bigga' bucks. But when $87,000 of O'Malley's laundered cash gets stashed in a bail of cotton, Gravedigger and Coffin find they're not the only dudes suddenly interested in soaring cotton prices! Trailing the bale all over Harlem, the detectives come up against the mafia, the police, black militants and more in an all out dash to nab the 87,000 cash and 86 anyone who stands in their way!;
• Cast: Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace, Redd Foxx, Emily Yancy, John Anderson, Lou Jacobi, Eugene Roche, J.D. Cannon, Mabel Robinson, Dick Sabol, Cleavon Little, Teddy Wilson, Maxwell Glanville, Arnold Williams, Van Kirksey, Helen Martin, Irwin C. Watson, Gertrude Jeannette, Leonardo Cimino, Simm Landres, Turk Turpin, Tommy Lane, Gilbert Lewis, Wally Taylor, William Pratt, Lisle Wilson, John D. Anthony, Anthony Chisholm, Tony Brubaker, Jonelle Allen, Walter Scott, Jimmy Hayeson, Lawrence Cook, Vincent Hamill, Rudy Townsend, Vernee Watson-Johnson, Ernest Marks, Al Fann, Alyce Webb, Louis Whitman, Kenneth Manigault, Gene Lindsey, Vinnette Carroll, Harold Gaetano, Stanley Greene, Albert Hall, Melba Moore, Lee Steele, Ossie Davis, Chester Himes, Arnold Perl
• Director: Ossie Davis
• Runtime: 1:36
• Company: MGM
• Media Format: Movie