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Cornbread, Earl and Me

He Had the Lightest Touch in a Heavy Town.

1975★ 6.8 · 141h 35mDrama

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.

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Cast

Laurence Fishburne
as Wilford Robinson

Antonio Fargas
as One-Eye

Hank Rolike
as Man

Bernie Casey
as Officer Larry Atkins

Madge Sinclair
as Leona Hamilton

Rosalind Cash
as Sarah Robinson

Logan Ramsey
as Deputy Coroner

Stefan Gierasch
as Sgt. Danaher

Hal Baylor
as Mr. Wilson

J. Jay Saunders
as Mr. Johnson

Sandy Ward
as Store Manager

Moses Gunn
as Benjamin Blackwell