This short is based on Chester Himes’s novel Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965) and its adaptation for the screen by Ossie Davis in 1970. The cotton in the novel and film comes from the region around Columbus Mississippi. Shot in noir-style the film focuses on the scene when detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones interrogate Lo-Boy an artist/hustler about the event around the demise of his friend Early Riser.
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