Judy Pace COFFIN ED and GRAVEDIGGER. Two detectives only a mother could love.
Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa. When New York City police officers Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson look into O'Malley's scam, they learn that the cash is being smuggled inside a bale of cotton. However, the police, O'Malley, and lots of others find themselves scrambling when the money goes missing.
Director
Ossie Davis
Writers
Chester Himes -Arnold Perl -Ossie Davis
Stars
Judy Pace -Godfrey Cambridge -Raymond St. Jacques -Calvin Lockhart
Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa. When New York City police officers Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson look into O'Malley's scam, they learn that the cash is being smuggled inside a bale of cotton. However, the police, O'Malley, and lots of others find themselves scrambling when the money goes missing.
Director
Ossie Davis
Writers
Chester Himes -Arnold Perl -Ossie Davis
Stars
Judy Pace -Godfrey Cambridge -Raymond St. Jacques -Calvin Lockhart
Category
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Short filmTranscript
00:00Introducing two cops only a mother could love.
00:05Meet Corfin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones.
00:09Two of New York's finest.
00:11Two cops who take charge when an $87,000 bale of cotton comes to Harlem.
00:18Tell me something, Willis.
00:20What's a bale of cotton doing in Harlem?
00:22A bale of cotton?
00:23Bale of cotton.
00:24Now, what would a bale of cotton be doing in Harlem?
00:26Down south, cotton was the way.
00:31Cotton comes to Harlem.
00:33It's cops and robbers with a shade of difference.
00:37We'll do fine, we'll do fine.
00:40See any cotton around here lately?
00:42A bale of cotton, sure.
00:44Where is it now?
00:45Did you turn Japanese, huh?
00:48Come on, you know the position. Come on.
00:50Damn it, another fine mess you got us into.
00:52I got us into? Shut up and shoot.
00:56Godfrey Cambridge is Grave Digger Jones.
00:59Raymond St. Jock is Corfin Ed Johnson.
01:02Calvin Lockhart.
01:03Well, if it ain't King Kong and Frankenstein.
01:06Hey, what kind of talk is that, soul brother?
01:09Don't you know that black is beautiful?
01:14They put a personal touch on everything they handle.
01:21You ought to play with that thing.
01:23I'm insecure, Captain.
01:24They're big, they're cool, they're beautiful.
01:28Where is that bale of cotton?
01:29There ain't no such thing as a bale of cotton in Harlem.
01:33Is that black enough for you?
01:35I finally found that bale of cotton.
01:37One thing's for sure, it ain't drugstore cotton.
01:39This is genuine Mississippi cotton.
01:42Don't you know if cotton come to Harlem,
01:45Come on, let's boot cotton's blood.
01:49Let's boot cotton's blood.
01:51I said if cotton come to Harlem,
01:54I think I'm gonna get me a stick and I'm gonna kick cotton in the butt.
01:58Corfin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones.
02:01Two cops only a mother could love.