Cotton Comes to Harlem is a 1970 blaxploitation film starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, and Redd Foxx based on Chester Himes' novel of the same name. The plot revolves around the efforts of the two Harlem detectives to recover $87 thousand of poor black families life savings, which have been stolen in a Back to Africa swindle; the money is concealed in a bale of cotton, which keeps changing hands. The film was directed by Ossie Davi...
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Initial release date:
- 1970
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Runtime:
- 97 min (58 hs )
