Cornbread, Earl and Me

He Had the Lightest Touch in a Heavy Town.

19751h 35mNo ratings yet

Drama

Overview

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.

Keywords

police brutality
coming of age
courtroom
basketball player

Details

Status: Released
Release date: May 21, 1975
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Production: American International Pictures,ML Productions
Cast: Don Newsome,Erik Kilpatrick,John Zaccaro,Bernie Casey,Pamela Jones,Beverly Hope Atkinson,Stefan Gierasch,Fred Slyter,Sarina C. Grant,Rosalind Cashand 22 more
Director: Joseph Manduke
Writer: Leonard Lamensdorf,Ronald Fair
Cinematography: Jules Brenner
Music: Donald Byrd
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0072822