He Had the Lightest Touch in a Heavy Town.
Original title
Cornbread, Earl and Me
Released
5/21/1975
Origin country
US
Genre
Drama
Budget
—
Revenue
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Runtime
1hr 35min
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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