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Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Cast: Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace, Redd Foxx
Crew: Gerald Hirschfeld, Anna Hill Johnstone, Ossie Davis, Ossie Davis, Robert Q. Lovett
Release: 1970-05-27
Electric Motor Repairer: Ms. Clara White DDS
Industrial-Organizational Psychologist: Tatum Ryan
Budget: $7,359,944
Transportation Equipment Maintenance: Karl Wisoky
Railroad Conductors: Mr. Delmer Russel IV
Food Servers: Randi Dare
Forming Machine Operator: Antonina Schoen
Welding Machine Tender: Milton Jakubowski
Logging Worker: Olen Roob
Chemistry Teacher: Dr. Larue Stamm
Lifeguard: Junior Volkman
Revenue: $65,245,878
Tool and Die Maker: Rylee Weimann
Cotton Comes to Harlem is a 1970 American neonoir action comedy film cowritten and directed by Ossie Davis and starring Godfrey Cambridge Raymond St Jacques and Redd Foxx The film is based on Chester Himes novel of the same name The opening theme Aint Now But Its Gonna Be was written by Ossie Davis and performed by Melba Moore.
In Cotton Comes to Harlem its a comedyaction picture with down and outers crime figures drug dealers and a few dedicated cops fighting for control of the poor and disenfranchised people trapped in the community.
Cotton Comes to Harlem is one of a series of novels that focus on the Harlem section of New York City and feature two black police detectives known as Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson These two if not the only black detectives in their precinct are unique because of their success and their style of “policing”.
Chester Himes’s 1965 novel Cotton Comes to Harlem is the sixth and bestknown novel in his Harlem Detective series The book follows black detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed as they search for 87000 stolen from hardworking African American families who dream of returning to Africa and to escape poverty in America.
Cotton Comes to Harlem Actordirector Ossie Davis makes his feature film debut with this slambang all stops out comedyaction film about expatriate writer Chester Himes two Harlem detectives.
Cotton Comes to Harlem is a hardboiled crime fiction novel written by Chester Himes in 1965 It is the sixth and best known of the Grave Digger Jones Coffin Ed Johnson Mysteries It was later adapted into a film of the same name in 1970 starring Godfrey Cambridge Raymond St Jacques and Redd Foxx.
117M Published on Aug 25 2012 Ossie Davis makes his directorial debut a smashing success in the trendsetting action crime comedy Cotton Comes To Harlem.
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