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Early Riser

20115mMovieDrama

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,…

DirectorKevin Jerome Everson
WriterKevin Jerome Everson
ProducersMadeleine Molyneaux·Kevin Jerome Everson

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Cast · Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson

JM
James McGilbray
Gravedigger Jones
DO
Dawon Owens
Lo-Boy #1
RS
Robert Stewart
Lo-Boy #2

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