Cotton Comes to Harlem
Bawełniany przekręt · dir. Ossie Davis
USA 1970, 97’
Screenings
10/22, 15:30 · Baj Pomorski – hall B
Trailer
Two detectives are assigned by the NYPD to recover $87,000 of poor black families life savings, which have been stolen in a Back to Africa swindle; the money is concealed in a bale of cotton, which keeps changing hands. The detectives, Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, are two black cops with a reputation for breaking the odd head. Both are annoyed at the success of the charismatic black nationalist leader Reverend Deke O’Malley who is selling trips back to Africa to the poor on the installment plan.
| Director: | Ossie Davis |
| Screenplay: | Ossie Davis |
| Music: | Galt MacDermot |
| Cinematography: | Gerald Hirschfeld |
| Editing: | Robert Q. Lovett |
| Cast: | Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace, Redd Foxx |
2012 Programme
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