Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)

Directors

Ossie Davis

Cast

Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace

The story

Deke "Reverend" O'Malley, a con man, is selling shares at a Harlem rally, for the purchase of a Back-to-Africa movement ship to be called The Black Beauty. During the rally, several masked gunmen jump out of a meat truck and steal $87,000 in donated cash from the back of an armored car. Two Harlem detectives, "Gravedigger" Jones and "Coffin Ed" Johnson, chase the car, and a bale of cotton falls out of the vehicle, unremarked at the time.

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