Cotton Comes To Harlem
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Actor: Calvin Lockhart, Godfrey Cambridge, Judy Pace, Raymond St. Jacques, Redd FoxxBrand: Twentieth Century Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-01-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Cotton Comes To Harlem
Movie Review: A ripoff, a high speed chase and Harlem scenery
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been seeing this film since I was a kid and to be honest, with each film, I learn a little bit more about the film that I did before. Anyway, you see this fancy car followed by a gold armored truck going throughout Harlem; To me, that is suspect from the get go, but alright. Let's see how this go; The movie starts with this man coming out of this fancy car in a cape(Calvin Lockhart) with followers, and folks are on the car trying to see the Reverend O'Malley. He gets on a platform and puts on this big speech about being tired of whitey and going back to Africa and asking folk to sign up for the ship($100 minimum) and you should see the folks running up to the table to buy shares on this ship. Redd Foxx come up and has $20 tops and after some consideration from the Reverend, he is given a certificate. Then soon after, whitey comes up and asks that the Reverend go downtown(I'm smelling a rat, but ok) then as soon as he get the people to calm down, a group of folks jump out a car and starts shooting up the place and surprise, take the money these people put down for this ship. And from then, it's a high speed chase for two cops(Godrey Cambridge and Raymond St Jacques) to get to the heart of the matter.
Summary of Cotton Comes To Harlem
One of the most influential Soul Cinema pix ever to shoot onto the screen Cotton Comes To Harlem spawned the blaxploitation 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. Jacques) 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 $87000 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 $87000 cash and to 86 anyone who stands in the way!System Requirements:Running Time: 96 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R UPC: 027616857842 Manufacturer No: 1001464Similar DVD Movies
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