Cotton Comes to Harlem

Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)

  • 60% of users liked it
    (1,953 ratings)

Ossie Davis makes his directorial debut a smashing success in the trend-setting action crime comedy Cotton Comes To Harlem. Coffin Ed (Raymond St. Jacques) and Grave Digger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge), two plainclothesmen on the Harlem detail, are assigned to investigate the goings-on of suspicious… More

R, 1 hr. 37 min.
Directed By
Ossie Davis
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy, Cult Movies
In Theaters
May 27, 1970 Wide
On DVD
Dec 26, 2001
MGM

Critic Reviews

  • Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    One of the earliest and best Blaxploitation films.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Chris W


    Although often considered a forerunner of "blaxploitation", I wouldn't disagree with you if you called this a full on blaxploitation film. Stylistically it doesn't fit, but it is an almost exclusively black cast, black crew, and deals with black themes, so… More

  • Cassandra M


    This is one of the funniest movies of the early 1970's. The story, the acting as well as the characters helped to make this a great film. In many ways this film was a preview of things to come due to the fact that the very next year with the premier of Shaft, the era of the… More

  • Ken S


    It's no Coffy, but it's a lot of fun.

  • Lesley N


    One of the very earliest blaxploitation films (1970), and not the best either (the books are better). S'ok.

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