Cornbread, Earl and Me 1975

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.

Cast

Moses Gunn

Rosalind Cash

Bernie Casey

Madge Sinclair

Laurence Fishburne

Thalmus Rasulala

Antonio Fargas

Logan Ramsey

Vince Martorano

Charles Lampkin

Stefan Gierasch

Stack Pierce

Tierre Turner

Jamaal Wilkes

Erik Kilpatrick

Bill Henderson

Randy Martin

Hal Baylor

J. Jay Saunders

Don Newsome

Sarina C. Grant

John Zaccaro

Don McGovern

Pamela Jones

Al Stevenson

William Upton

Beverly Hope Atkinson

Tom Maier

Hank Rolike

Sandy Ward

David Moody

Fred Slyter