Cornbread, Earl and Me

He Had the Lightest Touch in a Heavy Town.

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.

Laurence Fishburne

Wilford Robinson

Tierre Turner

Earl Carter

Jamaal Wilkes

Nathaniel 'Cornbread' Hamilton

Moses Gunn

Benjamin Blackwell

Rosalind Cash

Sarah Robinson

Bernie Casey

Officer Larry Atkins

Antonio Fargas

One-Eye

Stack Pierce

Sam Hamilton

Stefan Gierasch

Sgt. Danaher

Logan Ramsey

Deputy Coroner

Bill Henderson

Watkins

Hal Baylor

Mr. Wilson