Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)

Name: Cornbread, Earl and Me
Genre: Drama
Released: 1975-05-21
Duration: 95 min
Cast: Moses Gunn, Rosalind Cash, Bernie Casey, Madge Sinclair, Laurence Fishburne

He Had the Lightest Touch in a Heavy Town.

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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Released 1975-05-21 · 95 min · Drama

Directed by Joseph Manduke

Cast

Moses Gunn as Benjamin Blackwell
Rosalind Cash as Sarah Robinson
Bernie Casey as Officer Larry Atkins
Madge Sinclair as Leona Hamilton
Laurence Fishburne as Wilford Robinson
Thalmus Rasulala as Charlie
Antonio Fargas as One-Eye
Logan Ramsey as Deputy Coroner
Vince Martorano as Officer John Golich
Charles Lampkin as Fred Jenkins
Stefan Gierasch as Sgt. Danaher
Stack Pierce as Sam Hamilton
Tierre Turner as Earl Carter
Jamaal Wilkes as Nathaniel 'Cornbread' Hamilton
Erik Kilpatrick as Ace