Friday, June 10th at 7:45PM
St. Nicholas Park: West 135TH St. Plaza
Home To Harlem in the Park

Cotton Comes To Harlem screens FREE in St. Nick’s park as part of Made In Harlem: Home to Harlem curated by Ina Archer.

Cotton Comes To Harlem
Ossie Davis, 1970, 97 min. Digital
The directorial debut of actor Ossie Davis (who briefly appears in a scene from Edward Lewis’ Life In Harlem) adapts the 1965 novel from Harlem Renaissance author Chester Himes. Coffin Ed (Raymond St. Jacques) and Grave Digger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge), two plainclothesmen on the Harlem detail, are assigned to investigate the goings-on of suspicious local preacher Deke O'Malley (Calvin Lockhart), whose "Back to Africa" political movement turns out to be a scam to bilk the community of their hard-earned cash, with the scam-money hidden in a bale of cotton.

Bring blankets, chairs, snacks, etc!