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 enlarge | Director: Ossie Davis
Actors: Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace, Redd Foxx
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
Buy New: $5.01
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 16080
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 96
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: MGMD1001464D
ISBN: 0792848284
UPC: 027616857842
EAN: 9780792848288
ASIN: B000053VB9
Theatrical Release Date: May 27, 1970
Release Date: January 9, 2001
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Shipping: International shipping available
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| Customer Reviews:
 Humor at its finest December 23, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the funniest movie I have ever seen in my life. Only Richard Pryor ever made me laugh harder. Rex Reed, the movie critic whose tongue was sharper than a sword, said that you needed to sit through two showing in a theatre so you could hear the lines you missed because people were laughing so hard. He was right.
 Electrifying Inner-City Comic Thriller February 27, 2005
Director Ossie Davis delivers not only a taut police thriller but a film that inserts the concerns of the civil rights movement circa 1970 in a fascinating way. Filmed on actual locations the film just exudes authenticity and atmosphere. For a film that keeps it real I found it interesting that the film's score was composed by Galt McDermott of "Hair" fame(?!). Another minor quibble is that the violence in the film was at times over-the-top. Godfrey Cambridge as Gravedigger Jones and Raymond St. Jacques as Coffin Ed Johnson make an engaging pair. They assume their duty as New York police detectives is to protect their people from predators whether they be black or white even if at times they are at odds with their white captain. Calvin Lockhart is deliciously smarmy as Reverend Deke O'Malley who bilks his congregants out of cash for a bogus back to Africa scheme. Judy Pace is seductively evil as Iris, O'Malley's main squeeze. Redd Foxx is underutilized here as a junk dealer but his character does prove integral to the film's plot.
Wow. November 17, 2003
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Another movie in which Calvin Lockhart is momentarily shirt-less. A hundred, thousand, million stars!
Cotton Comes to Harlem July 19, 2003
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
a little slow in delived but an excellent movie.
I thought it was a funny movie! July 7, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a huge fan of blaxploitation movies of the 1970s. I thought it was really funny, especially in the beginning of the movie. This is the kind of movie that you can't take very seriously because a lot of it is cliche. Calvin Lockhart's character (Rev. Deke O'Malley) is conniving, but irresistable. You will enjoy this DVD!
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