Cornbread, Earl and Me
1975 · 95 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 1,112 VOTES · DIR. Joseph Manduke
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,978 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:35 [Cornbread] LET'S GO, TEAM. LET'S SLOW IT DOWN.
00:04:56 YOU KNOW I DON'T G O FOR THAT STUFF, HONEY.
00:07:51 AS LONG AS YOU GOT ONE HAND ON THAT BALL
00:11:13 WHAT DO YOU MEAN, WHO?
00:14:48 TO SETTLE YOUR ARGUMENT?
00:18:42 HE'S NOT GETTING INTO ANY TROUBLE, IS HE?
00:23:03 COME ON, EARL. LET'S GO GET SOME COOKIES.
00:27:05 2-A 36.
00:30:56 BET HIM A BOTTLE OF POP.
00:35:04 CODE 2.
00:40:48 THE PROCEDURES WILL BE EXPENSIVE
00:45:27 AND WE GOT TROUBLES.
00:48:26 GOOD PEOPLE.
00:52:18 BUSY?
00:55:57 WHATEVER YOU PEOPLE CALL HIM.
00:59:22 . OH, NO. NO
01:03:15 THEY WON'T PROSECUTE YOU AND CHARLIE
01:08:06 I'M SORRY...
01:12:02 THOUGHT HE HAD A GUN.
01:15:26 SHH!
01:19:27 HE USED TO DO THE SAME THING.
01:23:50 YES, SIR. EVERYBOD Y OUT THERE KNOWS ONE-EYE.
01:28:21 YES, SIR.
01:33:14 ? ON THE SIDES OF THE HALL ?
Cast & Characters
Moses Gunn
Benjamin Blackwell
Rosalind Cash
Sarah Robinson
Bernie Casey
Officer Larry Atkins
Madge Sinclair
Leona Hamilton
Jamaal Wilkes
Nathaniel 'Cornbread' Hamilton
Stefan Gierasch
Sgt. Danaher
Charles Lampkin
Fred Jenkins
Vince Martorano
Officer John Golich
Logan Ramsey
Deputy Coroner
Thalmus Rasulala
Charlie
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,978
Dialogue density20.8 lines / min
First line00:00:35
Final line01:33:14
Production Record
DirectorJoseph Manduke
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes1,112