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Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
Directed by Joseph Manduke
“He Had the Lightest Touch in a Heavy Town.”
Drama · 1h 35m
The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the "blaxploitation" craze. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, it features the screen debut of Laurence Fishburne, who was barely a teenager at the time.
Cast
Moses Gunn
Benjamin Blackwell
Rosalind Cash
Sarah Robinson
Bernie Casey
Officer Larry Atkins
Madge Sinclair
Leona Hamilton
Laurence Fishburne
Wilford Robinson
Thalmus Rasulala
Charlie
Antonio Fargas
One-Eye
Logan Ramsey
Deputy Coroner
V
Vince Martorano
Officer John Golich
Charles Lampkin
Fred Jenkins
Stefan Gierasch
Sgt. Danaher
Stack Pierce
Sam Hamilton
Crew
- Director
- Joseph Manduke
- Screenplay
- Leonard Lamensdorf
- Novel
- Ronald Fair
- Director of Photography
- Jules Brenner
- Original Music Composer
- Donald Byrd
Details
- Release date
- 1975-05-21
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- American International Pictures, ML Productions