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Cornbread, Earl and Me

He Had the Lightest Touch in a Heavy Town.

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Cornbread, Earl and Me — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • May 21, 1975
  • Runtime
  • 95 min
  • Genres
  • Drama
  • Director
  • Joseph Manduke

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Cornbread, Earl and Me — Cast

Moses Gunn photo Moses Gunn Benjamin Blackwell Rosalind Cash photo Rosalind Cash Sarah Robinson Bernie Casey photo Bernie Casey Officer Larry Atkins Madge Sinclair photo Madge Sinclair Leona Hamilton Laurence Fishburne photo Laurence Fishburne Wilford Robinson Thalmus Rasulala photo Thalmus Rasulala Charlie Antonio Fargas photo Antonio Fargas One-Eye Logan Ramsey photo Logan Ramsey Deputy Coroner

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