Cotton Comes To Harlem

From The Grindhouse Cinema Database

Main Details

  • Released in 1970
  • Color
  • Running Time: 97 Min.
  • Production Co: Formosa Productions
  • Distribution Co: United Artists (1970) (USA) (theatrical)
  • Directed by Ossie Davis
  • Written by Ossie Davis, Chester Himes, Arnold Perl
  • Starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace, and Redd Foxx
  • Produced by Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
  • Original Music by Galt MacDermot
  • Cinematography by Gerald Hirschfeld
  • Film Editing by Robert Q. Lovett

Plot Summary

  • Two Harlem cops investigate a robbery, believing that a reverend has staged it in order to steal the money he's collected for a local fundraiser.

Tagline

  • Introducing COFFIN ED and GRAVEDIGGER, two detectives only a mother could love.
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