Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Directed by Ossie Davis
Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa. When New York City police officers Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson look into O'Malley's scam, they learn that the cash is being smuggled inside a bale of cotton. However, the police, O'Malley, and lots of others find themselves scrambling when the money goes missing.
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What critics compared Cotton Comes to Harlem to
For aficionados, Abel's massive town car and camel-hair topcoat instantly evoke such on-location 1970s crime pics as The Seven-Ups and Cotton Comes to Harlem.
It turns out that this isn't a heist film after all, but a mash-up between Cotton Comes to Harlem, the laid-back cop classic that launched the blaxploitation genre in 1970, and an unmade sequel to The Sound of Music, where Christopher Plummer's Captain Von Trapp returns to the motherland and goes into business with the Nazis.