Cornbread, Earl and Me
Cornbread, Earl and Me
Release: 1975-05-21
·Runtime: 95m
·★ 6.7
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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United States of America
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Cast
Charles Lampkin
as Fred Jenkins
Stack Pierce
as Sam Hamilton
J. Jay Saunders
as Mr. Johnson
Rosalind Cash
as Sarah Robinson
Tierre Turner
as Earl Carter
Sarina C. Grant
as Mrs. Parsons
Beverly Hope Atkinson
as Edna
Sandy Ward
as Store Manager
Bernie Casey
as Officer Larry Atkins
Antonio Fargas
as One-Eye
Jamaal Wilkes
as Nathaniel 'Cornbread' Hamilton
Don McGovern
as Det. Kelly
Moses Gunn
as Benjamin Blackwell
Stefan Gierasch
as Sgt. Danaher
Erik Kilpatrick
as Ace
Bill Henderson
as Watkins
Madge Sinclair
as Leona Hamilton
Thalmus Rasulala
as Charlie
Hal Baylor
as Mr. Wilson
Hank Rolike
as Man
Laurence Fishburne
as Wilford Robinson
Logan Ramsey
as Deputy Coroner
