DVD
3 of 3 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Audiovisual Collection
- EASTWOOD: Audiovisual Collection
- WASHINGTON SQUARE: Audiovisual Collection
Cotton comes to Harlem
Call Number
- DVD ACTION (CEN, EAS, WSQ)
Languages
In English, with optional English subtitles.
Performers
Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace, Redd Foxx, John Anderson, J.D. Cannon, Emily Yancy, Lou Jacobi, Eugene Roche, Cleavon Little.
Publication Information
[Beverly Hills, CA] : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2014]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (97 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: R.
Series
Summary
Detectives "Gravedigger" Jones and "Coffin Ed" Johnson are on a case investigating a crooked Reverend--a brother whose "Back to Africa" campaign is nothing more than a big scam. But when $87, 000 of the Reverend'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 as they come up against the mafia, the police, black militants and street thugs in an all-out dash to nab $87,000 cash.
Notes
Title from container.
Based upon "Cotton comes to Harlem" by Chester Himes.
Originally released as motion picture in 1970.
Subjects
- Jones, Grave Digger (Fictitious character) > Drama.
- Johnson, Coffin Ed (Fictitious character) > Drama.
- African American detectives > Drama.
- African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
- Clergy > Corrupt practices > Drama.
- Money laundering > Drama.
- Criminal behavior > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
- Cotton trade > Drama.
- Organized crime > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
- Mafia > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
- Black militant organizations > Drama.
- Hoodlums > Drama.