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Early Riser

Early Riser

20115m

Status

Released

Release

2011

Runtime

5m

Storyline

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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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
5m
Sep 8, 2011
Languages
English
Production Countries
United States of America