Early Riser (movie)

Early Riser (movie)

  • Production country: United States of America
  • Producer: Kevin Jerome Everson
  • Production companies: Trich Arts, Picture Palace Pictures
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release date: 9/8/2011
  • Run time: 5 min.

Movie description

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, the film focuses on the scene when detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones interrogate Lo-Boy, an artist/hustler, about the event around the demise of his friend Early Riser.

Actors

James McGilbray

James McGilbray

Role(s): Gravedigger Jones

Details
Dawon Owens

Dawon Owens

Role(s): Lo-Boy #1

Details
Robert Stewart

Robert Stewart

Role(s): Lo-Boy #2

Details