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Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975) -- A 12-year-old is traumatised by the murder of his friend, a star basketball player.

Overview

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6.2/10   217 votes
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Director:
Joseph Manduke
Writers:
Ronald Fair (novel)
Leonard Lamensdorf (writer)
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Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
He Had the Lightest Touch in a Heavy Town. more
Plot:
A 12-year-old is traumatised by the murder of his friend, a star basketball player. full summary | add synopsis
User Comments:
Promising film hampered it's by music more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Moses Gunn ... Benjamin Blackwell
Rosalind Cash ... Sarah Robinson
Bernie Casey ... Officer Larry Atkins
Madge Sinclair ... Leona Hamilton
Jamaal Wilkes ... Nathaniel 'Cornbread' Hamilton (as Keith Wilkes)
Stefan Gierasch ... Sgt. Danaher
Charles Lampkin ... Fred Jenkins
Vince Martorano ... Officer John Golich
Logan Ramsey ... Deputy Coroner
Thalmus Rasulala ... Charlie
Antonio Fargas ... One-Eye

Laurence Fishburne ... Wilford Robinson (as Laurence Fishburne III)
Stack Pierce ... Sam Hamilton
Tierre Turner ... Earl Carter
Bill Henderson ... Watkins
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Hit the Open Man
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Runtime:
95 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:12 | USA:PG

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Laurence Fishburne's film debut. He is credited as Laurence Fishburne III. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Century of Black Cinema (2003) (V) more

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Promising film hampered it's by music, 5 March 2001

This is a rather well done film with great performances. Where it drops the ball is on the overdramatic music that sledgehammers the emotional tone of the more dramatic scenes.

It resists the temptation of villianizing all of the antagonists, especially the judge (which no doubt would've been portrayed as racist and corrupt in a similar film made today).

Bernie Casey (who I'll always think of as U.N Jefferson in Revenge Of The Nerds) is terrific and it's too bad I don't see him in too many films today.

Great 70's feel and the first appearance of Larry Fishburn makes this a film to check out.

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