COTTON COMES TO HARLEM is a quirky, colorful love letter to the people and culture of Harlem, tucked away inside a crime story adapted from a Chester Himes novel. MGM packaged the DVD in the “Soul Cinema” series along with COFFY, FOXY BROWN, BLACK CAESAR and TRUCK TURNER, but to me it doesn’t really feel like a blaxploitation movie. If it is it deserves credit for being one of the most textured and gorgeous looking blaxploitation movies. I will intersperse some random screen grabs throughout this review to give you an idea of all the great colors, clothing, sets and locations. (read the rest of this shit…)
Posts Tagged ‘Calvin Lockhart’
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Thursday, February 20th, 2014Tags: Calvin Lockhart, Chester Himes, Cleavon Little, Emily Yancy, Galt MacDermot, Godfrey Cambridge, Judy Pace, Ossie Davis, Raymond St. Jacques, Redd Foxx
Posted in Crime, Reviews | 9 Comments »
-
Hey bud, thanks for reading. Don't feel obligated, but here are some
-
WAYS YOU CAN SUPPORT THE SHIT OUT OF VERN & OUTLAWVERN.COM
if that's your thing:
1. Patreon
2. Buy my books from your local bookseller or somebody
click here for my Amazon author page (NOTE: My ten year contract has passed on the Titan books, so I don't get residuals on them like I do WORM ON A HOOK and NIKETOWN, but I would love for you to read them because I'm proud of them)
EXTRA CREDIT: Review them on Amazon! That would really help me out. Unless you didn't like them, in which case forget I said anything.
3. If you ever buy from Amazon, go through my links or search engines
(you pay the same amount you were gonna pay anyway they cut me a little slice)I also have an Amazon UK one:
(I can't get the search box widget to work anymore, so click on MOONWALKER and then search for what you want.)4. My exciting line of fashion and leisure products
5. Spread the word
Tell your friends about my reviews and my books and everything. Only cool people though please, we don't need a bunch of suckers and/or chumps around here.
THANKS EVERYBODY. YOUR FRIEND, VERN
* * * * Recent commentary and jibber-jabber
- Borg9 on Strange Days: “Agreed that despite its protestations this movie is all about seeing. We see what the SQUID wearer sees and often…” Feb 3, 09:16
- Bill Reed on Women Talking: “Well I, for one, am much more interested in seeing this after having read your review. And yes, it sounds…” Feb 3, 06:40
- Bill Reed on Step Up: Year of the Dance (a.k.a. Step Up China): “Never say never, but I doubt I’ll be watching any STEP UPs any time soon. But I always enjoy reading…” Feb 3, 06:17
- jojo on Infinity Pool: “Sorry, I didn’t mean to discourage anyone form seeing the movie. I haven’t seen it, and was only addressing the…” Feb 2, 18:26
- The Winchester on Geostorm: “1) So a long time ago I worked on an NBC mini-series called THE STORM which was initially titled MEGASTORM…” Feb 2, 17:29
- Birch on Infinity Pool: “I really didn’t feel this one which is too bad because the basic premise of James going through a weird…” Feb 2, 15:02
- VERN on Infinity Pool: “Sorry to be snippy, jojo. Pretty often, including today and yesterday, I post about a movie I’m really excited to…” Feb 2, 14:36
- dreadguacamole on Infinity Pool: “Ugh, this is seemingly being shipped to the UK via boat, so we still have to wait another month. Really…” Feb 2, 14:04
- Matthew Davis on Babylon: “There is a sequence in Bogdanovich’s “Nickelodeon”(1975/76?) in which multiple film are being shot next to each other. Bogdanovich was…” Feb 2, 13:50
- jojo on Infinity Pool: “Nor do I find the find the things League was accused of as “fun trivia” tbh…” Feb 2, 13:45
- jojo on Infinity Pool: “No. You chose to pat Neon on back in your post-script. And I choose to use the comments to state…” Feb 2, 13:39
- VERN on Infinity Pool: “It kinda seems like you’re doing these background checks on companies I mention to guilt me, but since you’re not…” Feb 2, 13:32
- jojo on Infinity Pool: “And for the record, I don’t know how complicate League was in anything. But he certainly was responsible for re-hiring…” Feb 2, 13:16
- jojo on Infinity Pool: “Yeah, it’s weird. He and his company got in all this trouble for enabling at the least, encouraging and participating…” Feb 2, 13:10
- Ducki3x on Infinity Pool: “That smash cut to the detention room made me laugh harder than anything has in ages. My theater was stoney…” Feb 2, 13:07
VERN’S “I RECOMMEND THE SHIT OUT OF THIS PRODUCT” CORNER:
Recent Commented on Posts
Most Comments
- Avatar: The Way of Water - 97 comments
- Terrifier - 83 comments
- Terrifier 2 - 76 comments
- Halloween Ends - 60 comments
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - 56 comments
- Double feature: Bruiser (2000) / The Faculty (1998) - 39 comments
- M3GAN - 29 comments
- Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday - 27 comments
- Toolbox Murders and the reclamation of Tobe Hooper - 27 comments
- Joe Kidd - 26 comments