"What's a bail of cotton doing in Harlem?"
That's what everybody want to know in the film adaptation of Chester Himes's novel about two off-beat Harlem cops tracking a bail of cotton that has a lot of cash in it. Real cash. It's "Lethal Weapon" for the 70s.
Stars Geoffrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques as Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. Calvin Lockhart's a Jim Baker-like preacher and a pre "Sanford and Son" Redd Foxx as a bum. Directed and co-scribed by Ossie Davis, this blaxploitation film, came out between "Sweet Sweetback's Badassss Song" and "Shaft".
"Now is that black enough for ya?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKmSwcFkxCc
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065579/
That's what everybody want to know in the film adaptation of Chester Himes's novel about two off-beat Harlem cops tracking a bail of cotton that has a lot of cash in it. Real cash. It's "Lethal Weapon" for the 70s.
Stars Geoffrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques as Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. Calvin Lockhart's a Jim Baker-like preacher and a pre "Sanford and Son" Redd Foxx as a bum. Directed and co-scribed by Ossie Davis, this blaxploitation film, came out between "Sweet Sweetback's Badassss Song" and "Shaft".
"Now is that black enough for ya?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKmSwcFkxCc
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065579/
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