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Cotton Comes to Harlem film still Public Deposited
- Description
Original Identifier: O.D. - 2
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : black & white
- 10 x 8 inches
- Persons Pictured
- Cambridge, Godfrey, 1933-1976
- Unidentified
- St. Jacques, Raymond, 1930-1990
- Shelf Number
- PA 663
- Caption
- Cotton Comes to Harlem: Story-in-Pictures -- Cotton Comes to Harlem, a Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., presentation stars Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques and Calvin Lockhart in a fast-moving crime drama based on a novel by Chester Himes. Ossie Davis directed from a screenplay he wrote with Arnold Perl. Music is by Galt MacDermot. The film was shot on the streets of Harlem, locale of the Himes story. It is released by United Artists, an entertainment service of Transamerica corporation, and is in Color by DeLuxe. Grave Digger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) left, rear, and Coffin Ed Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) two of the toughest police detectives in Harlem, take on a group of black militants during a donnybrook at a fund-raising rally held by the Reverend Deke O'Malley.
- City
- New York City
- Country
- United States
- Creator
- Publisher: United Artists
- Date Created
- Publication Date: 1970
- Collection Number
- GEN
- Persistent Identifier
- Filename
- VAE0371-001573
- Subject
- Men
- Detectives
- Film stills
- Actors
- Photographs
- Comedy films
- African Americans
- Action and adventure films
- Title
- Cotton Comes to Harlem film still
- State
- New York
- Holding Location
- Bloomington - Black Film Center & Archive
Herman B Wells Library, Room 044
1320 East Tenth Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
Contact at bfca@indiana.edu, 812-855-6041
- Bloomington - Black Film Center & Archive
- Campus
- IU Bloomington
- Source Metadata Identifier
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