Cotton Comes to Harlem [VHS]

Cotton Comes to Harlem [VHS]
by Ossie Davis

Cotton Comes to Harlem [VHS]

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Actor: Calvin Lockhart, Godfrey Cambridge, Judy Pace, Raymond St. Jacques, Redd Foxx
Director: Ossie Davis
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: NTSC
Release Date: 1996-01-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

VHS Movie Reviews of Cotton Comes to Harlem [VHS]

Movie Review: The Movie is Fine, the Description is Not Complete
Summary: 3 Stars

This refers to the double feature version containing both "Cotton Comes to Harlem" and "Hell Up in Harlem".

I purchased the older DVD with just "Cotton Comes to Harlem" some years ago but was looking for a replacement with the correct aspect ratio, which is 1.85:1 per IMDb. From the description of this product, both here and elsewhere, it appeared to me that both films were available in both 1.33:1 and 1.85:1, a not uncommon occurrence.

Unfortunately, this is not correct: the package labling clearly states that "Cotton Comes to Harlem" is 1.33:1 and "Hell Up in Harlem" is 1.85:1.

The film itself is great. I enjoyed when I read the book, when I saw the film at the time it came out, and I enjoy it every time I see it even in P&S.

I just wish the product description had been more precise.

Movie Review: El Cojonu Speaks
Summary: 5 Stars

Make no mistake about it, this is the funniest, most down with it movie made about life in the Hood back in the 70's.
Best characters: Calvin ( The Right Reverend Deke O' Malley - I'M I BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOUUUU ! ), and Redd at the end who winds up with the money and the chicks( Redd Style ! ).
The part of REV. O'Malley was a take off on Rev. Ike, a real life Rev. up in Harlem who dressed in Custom Made Silk Suits,Wore Mink Coats of different colors, Alligator Shoes and Borsalino Hats, Drove a Gold Rolls-Royce and lived in a Penthouse up in Riverdale in the Bronx. Rev. Ike was a man of his time, he always had a
Knockout Sister on his Arm and Transmited his sermons on Sundays from his Church up in Harlem; I remember him saying one time that the Lord didn't want him to be poor and neither any member of his Congregation, that they should all go out there and get rich and bring him some.
The Brother was Super Cool and Out-of-sight; they broke the mold when he was born.
How many of you out there remember Rev. Ike ?

Movie Review: A ripoff, a high speed chase and Harlem scenery
Summary: 5 Stars

I have been seeing this film since I was a kid and to be honest, with each film, I learn a little bit more about the film that I did before. Anyway, you see this fancy car followed by a gold armored truck going throughout Harlem; To me, that is suspect from the get go, but alright. Let's see how this go; The movie starts with this man coming out of this fancy car in a cape(Calvin Lockhart) with followers, and folks are on the car trying to see the Reverend O'Malley. He gets on a platform and puts on this big speech about being tired of whitey and going back to Africa and asking folk to sign up for the ship($100 minimum) and you should see the folks running up to the table to buy shares on this ship. Redd Foxx come up and has $20 tops and after some consideration from the Reverend, he is given a certificate. Then soon after, whitey comes up and asks that the Reverend go downtown(I'm smelling a rat, but ok) then as soon as he get the people to calm down, a group of folks jump out a car and starts shooting up the place and surprise, take the money these people put down for this ship. And from then, it's a high speed chase for two cops(Godrey Cambridge and Raymond St Jacques) to get to the heart of the matter.

Movie Review: Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars

"Coffin Ed & " Gravedigger Jones are at it again. Another Blockbuster fromthe "70's. Dig The old cars" A must have & follow up to " A Rage In Harlem" Redd Foxx makes a appearance as " Uncle Bud"

Movie Review: the king of blax. movies
Summary: 4 Stars

One of the first three blax. movies starting the year of 70. super movie

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Summary of Cotton Comes to Harlem [VHS]

Based on Chester Himes's novel, this film marked actor-writer Ossie Davis's directing debut. Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques play Himes's volatile police detectives, Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, who are on the trail of white men who pulled an armed stickup at a Back to Africa rally in Harlem. The money belongs to the poor people who paid for a chance to return to the motherland--but was it really a stickup? Or is the flashy preacher at the center of the Back to Africa movement (Calvin Lockhart) involved in a scam to rip off his own people? The plot drags; the best part of the film are the performances (as well as spotting cameos by such actors as the then-unknown Cleavon Little) and the on-location shooting in parts of New York where a camera had rarely ventured previously. Redd Foxx shows up in a small part as a ragpicker that led to his role in TV's Sanford and Son. --Marshall Fine

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