Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson watch order
There are 2 Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson films, about 1.7 hours in total. The first was released in 1970, the latest in 1972. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.
Based on the books by Chester Himes, featuring New York City police detectives "Coffin Ed" Johnson and "Gravedigger" Jones.
- 1
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
27 May 1970
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 themselv
- 2
Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972)
29 Jun 1972 · 100 min
Sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black gangster, dead 4 decades. When he seems to have reappeared, once again slitting throats with his Blue straight edge razors, the two cops begin a complicated search for some answers.
Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.