Cornbread, Earl and Me

Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)

He Had the Lightest Touch in a Heavy Town.

Drama

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.

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  • Release Date: 1975-05-21
  • Runtime: 1h 35min
  • Director: Joseph Manduke

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Cast

  • Laurence Fishburne

    Wilford Robinson

  • Tierre Turner

    Earl Carter

  • Jamaal Wilkes

    Nathaniel 'Cornbread' Hamilton

  • Moses Gunn

    Benjamin Blackwell

  • Rosalind Cash

    Sarah Robinson

  • Bernie Casey

    Officer Larry Atkins

  • Antonio Fargas

    One-Eye

  • Stack Pierce

    Sam Hamilton

  • Erik Kilpatrick

    Ace

  • Madge Sinclair

    Leona Hamilton

  • Stefan Gierasch

    Sgt. Danaher

  • Charles Lampkin

    Fred Jenkins

  • Vince Martorano

    Officer John Golich

  • Logan Ramsey

    Deputy Coroner

  • Thalmus Rasulala

    Charlie

  • Bill Henderson

    Watkins

  • Randy Martin

    Shifty

  • Hal Baylor

    Mr. Wilson

  • J. Jay Saunders

    Mr. Johnson

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