"Now what would a bail of cotton be doing in Harlem?"Director: Ossie Davis
Based on the 1965 novel by Chester Himes
Starring: Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques
"Introducing Coffin Ed and Gravedigger. Two detectives only a mother could love." Most 1970s. Most Blaxploitation. I was amused, and throughly entertained. Pretty sure I could only follow the characters and plot because we'd just read the book in my African American lit class...although it did stray from the book a bit as well. Anyways, book and movie share the point A start and point B end but everything in between is just crazy. I suppose I need to get more used to the genre, this was definitely a first besides, well, Shaft.
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