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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.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.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.
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- 1 win & 1 nomination
Teddy Wilson
- Barry
- (as Theodore Wilson)
Van Kirksey
- Early Riser
- (as Van Kriksey)
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- TriviaDuring Deke O'Mally's opening speech, Demond Wilson (who played Lamont Sanford) appears as a background rally attendant.
- GoofsDuring the car chase, the mirror on the driver's side of the police car gets shot off. Once the police car collides with the watermelon cart a few seconds later, the mirror reappears.
- Quotes
Gravedigger Jones: One more word, soul brother. You had it made. Black folks would have followed you anywhere. You could've been another Marcus Garvey or even another Malcolm X. But instead you ain't nothin' but a pimp with a chicken-shit backbone.
- ConnectionsFeatured in A Century of Black Cinema (2003)
- SoundtracksCotton Comes To Harlem
Music by Galt MacDermot
Lyrics by Joseph S. Lewis
Sung by George Aliceson Tipton (as George Tipton)
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The beginning of the blaxploitation genre
One of the most influential pictures ever to shoot onto the screen, "Cotton Comes To Harlem" spawned the beginning of the blaxploitation action boom in 1970 by delivering a refreshingly different detective action yarn with a lot of humor,a lot of hard-hitting drama with a lot of black soul(It was know as SOULPOWER!). An unbeatable mix of fastpaced adventure and sheer comic having spiced with spectacular shootouts and chases with a lot of fast talking and tough repartee with solid performances by Godfrey Cambridge,Raymond St. Jacques and Calvin Lockhart no to mention to comedic timing of Redd Foxx. This picture became a milestone for a genre of action movies that would remain throughout the rest of that decade(including its sequel "Come Back Charleston Blue" two years later).
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- Wenn es Nacht wird in Manhattan
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- $1,200,000 (estimated)
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By what name was Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) officially released in Canada in English?
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