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Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge (February 26, 1933 – November 29, 1976) was an American stand-up comic and actor. Alongside Bill Cosby , Dick Gregory , and Nipsey Russell , he was acclaimed by Time in 1965 as "one of the country's foremost celebrated Negro comedians."
The cast includes Raymond St. Jacques and Godfrey Cambridge as Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones respectively, as well as Calvin Lockhart, Redd Foxx and Judy Pace. [14] While staying true to the hard-boiled theme, the film does play into the blaxploitation that was a popular genre at the time.
Come Back, Charleston Blue is a 1972 American crime comedy film starring Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques, loosely based on Chester Himes' novel The Heat's On. It is a sequel to the 1970 film Cotton Comes to Harlem .
Cotton Comes to Harlem is a 1970 American neo-noir [2] action comedy film [3] co-written and directed by Ossie Davis and starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, and Redd Foxx. [4] The film, later cited as an early example of the blaxploitation genre, is based on Chester Himes ' novel of the same name . [ 5 ]
Arriving home in Britain after traveling on the continent, he calls his business associate, Abel Speers. When the latter arrives, the two examine and discuss a gold chain that Dekrugh stole from a grave in Europe; then, the occupant of the grave turns up. "No Such Thing as a Vampire"
The name of the series referred to the color of the books' covers, which was solid black (the association of that word with both the covers and the dark content therein would be a factor when a group of French aficionados of American crime movies famously coined the term "film noir". To solve Himes' problem, Duchamel suggested he turn to ...
When minor writer Leslie Braverman dies suddenly from a heart attack at the age of 41, his four best friends decide to attend his funeral.The quartet of Jewish intellectuals consists of public relations writer Morroe Rieff from the Upper East Side, essayist Barnet Weinstein from the Lower East Side, book reviewer Holly Levine from the Lower West Side, and Yiddish writer Felix Ottensteen from ...
Published in 1959, it is the second book in the Grave Digger Jones & Coffin Ed Johnson Mysteries. The protagonists of the novel, Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed, are a pair of black detectives who patrol the dangerous slums of Harlem. The book was originally published in French under the title Il pleut des coups durs (English: It's Raining Hard).