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Cotton comes to Harlem

Two Harlem detectives investigate the 'Back to Africa' scheme of a preacher that they suspect is a sham.

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  • "Two Harlem detectives investigate the 'Back to Africa' scheme of a preacher that they suspect is a sham."@en
  • "St. Jacques is Coffin Ed Johnson and Cambridge is Gravedigger Jones, black cops who suspect preacher Lockhart's back-to-Africa campaign is a swindle. Neatly combines action and comedy."
  • "St. Jacques is Coffin Ed Johnson and Cambridge is Gravedigger Jones, black cops who suspect preacher Lockhart's back-to-Africa campaign is a swindle. Neatly combines action and comedy."@en
  • "Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are two Harlem plainsclothesmen, investigating a "Back to Africa" campaign run by a shady preacher, Rev. Deke O'Malley."
  • ""At an outdoor barbecue, charismatic confidence man Rev. Deke O'Malley defrauds Harlem residents of $87,000 intended to transport blacks back to Africa. The money, however, is immediately seized by the black minister's white partner, Calhoun, who flees the scene in a meat truck, having secreted the money in a bale of cotton. O'Malley follows in an armored car, himself pursued by black police detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones. The bale bounces from the truck during the chase, is found by Uncle Bud, a junkman, and sold as a prop to Mabel, an inventive stripteaser. As Mabel begins her act in Harlem's Apollo Theater, Calhoun and O'Malley appear onstage in 'blackface, ' and fruitlessly comb the cotton for money. While so doing, the two are exposed and arrested by Coffin Ed and Gravedigger. The detectives subsequently coerce a Mafia don to compensate O'Malley's disgruntled congregation for the elusive $87,000. The pair later receives a postcard from Uncle Bud, who discloses that he has absconded with the missing money to Africa, where he is enjoying a new lifestyle"--AFI catalog, 1961-1970."@en
  • "St. Jacques is Coffin Ed. Johnson, Cambridge is Gravedigger Jones, black cops who suspect preacher Lockhart's back-to-Africa campaign is a swindle. Neatly combines action and comedy."@en

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  • "Police films"@en
  • "Black films and programs"
  • "Black films and programs"@en
  • "Adaptations"
  • "Film adaptations"
  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Film adaptations"@en
  • "Police films and programs"@en
  • "Features"@en
  • "Crime films and programs"
  • "Videodiscos DVD"
  • "Feature films"
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  • "Dance"@en
  • "Suspense"
  • "Blaxploitation films"@en
  • "Fiction films"
  • "Fiction films"@en
  • "Comedy films"
  • "Comedies"
  • "Comedy films"@en
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Action and adventure films"@en
  • "Films for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Detective and mystery films"
  • "Detective and mystery films"@en

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