Saturday Morning Feature | Cornbread Earl and Me 1975, Laurence Fishburne in his first film

High school basketball star Nathaniel "Cornbread" Hamilton (Keith Wilkes) is the pride of his urban neighborhood, and he appears destined for big things on the court and in the classroom. But a dare leads to a fatal misunderstanding when Nathaniel is shot dead by police who take him for someone who's just committed a violent crime. As police officers try to protect one of their own, members of the oppressed African-American community do what they must in order to find justice.
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[@mykchek7]

Instant Classic!!! Saw this when I was 9yrs old on the Duece in NYC with Cooley High as a Double Bill.. Crazy Dope! I knew Larry Fishburne was gonna be a star after this.. Never forgot him..

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Wow 😊❤ I wasn't born 😊

[@peterdavis8471]

Old school and older school 😅

[@traceywilliams6249]

Yeah 👍❤

[@keisharobinson2193]

Wow me to now I am 52 Yah is good

[@tremainelymon6857]

Kind of put in the mind of benji wilson on 30for30 great ball player , lost his life early.

[@TheBlackMoonReturns]

I was like 12 when this movie was released and it has left an impression on me that has lasted until this day and I'm 61 now.

[@fatimacottle1968]

💯 ABSOLUTELY love I was younger but I still remember this movie memories 💯💯🎊🎊🔟🌏♥️

[@fatimacottle1968]

Very Very Very deep impression and impact on purpose purpose life line study and learning lessons experience Leading Leadership 👑♥️💪🏿🙌🎊🔟💯🌏

[@Monique-no5su]

Thats why we all must be counted and heard. Even if don't agree to all that's changes....One step at a time...THATS WHY PEOPLE HAVE MADE IT SO FAR...❤

[@Monique-no5su]

I see this in Barstow California. Knowledge is important. This movie explains "WHY" THIS IS THE MOTION OF SOME HERE. ARMY TOWN. YOU SEE THE TRUTH WITHOUT SPEECH FROM THIS MOVIE.

[@GayRichards-k5x]

Thats young Madge ❤❤🇯🇲

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Mr Fishburne one of my favorite actors wow he was young ❤😂lol.

[@PedroEdmee-km5sx]

I watched this movie in the globe cinema in barbados. Man I love this film it made me cry , I was about twelve years old. 😂❤🎉 man what a movie.. it was a film of passion and the love of the people. And I used to live in harlem. And spent some time in Queens. Now I'm 62 living in barbados right now. Mann those were the days.

[@donnameansyoucancallmelala1800]

The actors and actresses were extremely dignified.Excellent movie! RIP to all of the actors and actresses who are no longer with us.

[@peterdavis8471]

Love that 70's sound 😊😊😊

[@ntblend9563]

RIP

[@Upstatenewyork88]

I’m 33 and seeing this movie for the first time

[@TiffanyMays-cn5li]

My first time at 48

[@gdevine365]

'93. Age 30. I enjoyed it

[@DR-um2bv]

47 and heard of the movie but never seen it

[@_SayitAintSo]

dang, i'm 17

[@G9Classified9]

Wow top tier acting across the board in this movie 👏🏾 Now everybody is an actor in reality

[@thurgooddukes7381]

Talk about history repeating itself!! These were some of the top black actors and actresses when I was growing up! This brought back a flood of good memories! The 1970's was definitely a great decade growing up for me!❤😊

[@darkart.customs9920]

The sad thing is if you think about it... History didn't really repeat itself...nothing has really changed from back then till now. it almost feels like things are getting worse

[@BlackGeoYoutube]

Things are the same. Just Black people have gotten worse. We had dignity for the most part back then.

[@jerodjohnson7240]

@@darkart.customs9920 Thats because they are worse than then, Because the Democrats and social Media and Liberal Media and everyone who has some part of the left in them have made it so. If you lived in the 70's,80's90's you know This day and age was all coerced . Watch the T.v. shows, the movies and speak to the people of them times, We were all starting to come together and ignore Race. The people who pushed Race topics back in the limelight were The Shady Clintons, Bush's,Obama's,Bidens and now the Harris's, Not to mention all the Real Racist of the Democrat parties and their forefathers. Looks deep into the history and you will find the truth all them names i said have ties to the KKK and slavery.

[@maturechick9536]

I always remember that movie, I took my son when he was about ten years old. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@1351Yellow]

First movie I ever saw at the movie theater with my family. I was 5 years old and it’s the same thing going on today with the police. Man ain’t nothing changed 49 years later smh.

[@rick1975100]

These movies is like a time machine.

[@Prettyflykey]

yeah to last year lol

[@rocketcityrob343]

Wow! I haven’t seen this movie in like forever. Thanks 💯

[@ramonawalker9289]

❤ SAW THIS YEAR'S AGO IN MY SCHOOL AUDITORIUM , IT COST 50 CENTS TO GET IN.THAT WAS THE BEST MOVIE EVER. IN THE 80'S.❤

[@ahmad.tillery.1987]

RIP Nathaniel "Cornbread" one of the saddest film character deaths in black history.

[@mr.bigdaddyyear3225]

My 3 grade elementry teacher told us to bring a movie on movie day I bring cornbread Earl & me 😂

[@ms.branch1207]

The quality is so good. I remember this movie.❤

[@williesanders184]

I remember it from those teen day's,! Will watch again!💖👍🏾

[@annettefaulk5405]

L. Fishburne still @ it 2024 (Clippers) We were so blessed to be exposed to such well rounded talent musical and all. Respect & 🫶💯‼️

[@wednesdayrenee_]

I’m a 87 baby and this is my 1st time seeing this; it was interesting. I was unaware that Fishburne was a child actor; he did a great job👏🏾

[@dariusvbryant.]

Great movie resonates to this day."

[@michaellewis-fq5wr]

This one of my favorite movies!

[@davidstewart5018]

Cornbread mama was Eddie Murphy Mama on Coming to America😂

[@blacktreemedia]

Madge Sinclair

[@teresawicks-kq3bq]

She also played Kunta Kinte's (John Amos) wife in Roots 😊

[@DoubeEdged7]

I ​@@blacktreemedia She also played a nurse on trapper John MD

[@blacktreemedia]

@DoubeEdged7 she’s my close friends mom, her daughter became Miss Jamaica some years back and is a force in the entertainment industry

[@Mr.400lbsjourney]

You are a fool lol

[@Unknownartist-qo7ne]

I'm 13 and love old movies, music,cars , and so on. This movie was good I seen this last year.

[@vanessawrightsil-greer1956]

I was 6 yrs old when this came out. I remember this movie & Cooley High! My all time favorites

[@limomangeno]

Good movie ,yes 49 years have passed .But things like this happen, Sad to say.The city and the pd will never admit to a mistake ,Ever.....

[@epicsseven7686]

I was 7 years old when this movie came out. I became aware of it when I was in my early 20s. I'm looking at this classic. It really puts things into perspective where I'm now realizing that Laurence Fishburne wasn't that much older than me. I'm getting old. Lol.

[@kincamell2]

Gratitude. Peace to the cast. Peace to Donald Byrd and The Blackbyrds. Peace to Wu Tang.

[@jesusismylord2478]

I'm still not getting how movies like this could be considered good and entertaining, it's heartbreaking. God will judge those that have done things like this or worse.

[@evonza4858]

Radio Raheem is Earl?😉👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@traceyf4842]

What happened to the sound? I stopped watching it because I couldn't hear anything. It looks like a good movie. 😊

[@blacktreemedia]

I didn’t have license for that music so had to mute it for a few seconds in spaces. Sorry.

[@StacyAnderson-eg2gf]

I always thought he was so handsome Lawrence fishburn

[@Th3Irish1ATL7]

This movie, tho. First time seeing this at the age of 38. And all I have to say is wow! 😮

[@FrederickParillon]

SW this in 1977 at the Galaxy cinema in St.Maarten when I was q3 years old. That movie was the buzz in high school for all of us freshmen Seeing thisfor thetenth time..

[@66chubbs]

Keith Wilkes played the character Cornbread, he was a REAL basketball player at the time of this movie 🎬, he was playing for the Los Angeles Lakers, this was a all stars black actors and actresses in this movie as well, back in those days this is what happened when it came to the police departments across the United States when it came to black neighborhoods across the country , how many died at the hands of the police departments in the United States....hmmmm I wonder until to this very date....congratulations to Jamal Keith Wilkes for a job well done.❤😊

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Love Ms Cash rip

[@DreadDazeTV]

Excellent film. Big respect all time

[@LurlineThompson-Pile]

It's a pity he never lived out his dream. Got cut down early. He was so good at it.❤😊❤

[@QChalla]

If it makes you feel better the actor that played cornbread actually played in the NBA for the warriors and the lakers! So he indeed got to live his dream.

[@LurlineThompson-Pile]

To God be all the Glory😊.

[@eunicemurray8482]

Thanks a lot u know how long I saw this and would do anything to see it again hands up 😊👋🙏💯🤩😍😀👍

[@evonza4858]

RadioRaheem looks like a young Earl😉

[@jhssmith2004]

saw this when i was 13. it made me sad i remember. the issues in this movie are sill relavent today.

[@infanttinysnoop8272]

Yall talkin bout its crazy how time went by.. dats what time does.. whats crazy is dat da incident dat happened to Cornbread is still happening 50 years later😒

[@blacktreemedia]

Tyreek Hill the new Cornbread

[@denmarkreid3771]

Cornbread was my first idol. Then Dr, Magic , and MJ. 😂💯

[@JohnnyOliver-d5w]

Born in 1976 at 8 years the language between adults are much different living in 2024

[@MrEmmanuelSimon]

So this guy was the original orange soda lover before Kel in Kenan and Kel? 🤔 hmmm interesting!

[@thomasbrown3356]

When I first saw this film at the movie theater, Larry Fishburne was not the better known child actor. The other kid, Tierre Turner was. He had been in a few films and had a brief sitcom-The cop and the Kid.

[@jermaineebron]

YOU GON EAT CHO CORNBREAD ???

[@SidJustice1]

This movie get lost in the shuffle. And it’s a crime; it’s a real gem 💎

[@howardlawrence4143]

This Is a real classic

[@rhondalong152]

I can't believe that this is the first time I've seen this. I thought I had but watching now, I realized that I hadn't seen it.

[@jbartmontage6737]

Citizens regulating the law is beautiful 💚 Well done and justified.

[@bestcakeueverate]

Remember hearing about this one, never watched it.

[@LettyABC]

I’m in my 50s now.. I believe I was around 8 when I saw this for the first time.. because I was on 5 years old when it came out.😂

[@jimmywang3879]

Thanks for sharing, a lotta Black folks been telling me to peep this and now there's a copy to watch, u a triple OG 4 this

[@blacktreemedia]

That means a lot

[@fromtheheavenlyrealms8613]

Cornbread Earl and me and Cooly high was our Netflix. And we use to sneak and watch JDs Revenge. 😊😊

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Sounds cuts off certain parts.

[@blacktreemedia]

Didn’t have the rights to the music for those parts sorry

[@DinéFlower]

Good 🎬 movie to bad corn bread had to died a good kid. I can't believe how twisted these cops are..

[@kevinmartin9732]

Sadly, this is a reality....then they investigate themselves, hide behind qualified immunity, and find their actions justified

[@LUCG]

Most people here mention Laurence Fishburn, only one mentioned L.A. Lakers' Jamal Wilkes, rookie of the year in 1975.

[@blacktreemedia]

We interviewed him on this channel not too long ago, for the Magic Johnson documentary on Apple TV, so he is alive and well. Jamaal Wilkes.

[@rubygirl1643]

many thanks!!!!!

[@blacktreemedia]

Welcome!

[@majorbarber4070]

We been suffering from police brutality forever

[@b1satindoll]

Love the movies! Please so a sound check lol

[@KingCrazealmighty360]

Larry fishburne's first movie

[@April-tm7uv]

Last time I saw this movie I was in rainbow babies children hospital I was 13 I'm 64 now and no idea who the boy was

[@benniefreeman9451]

Encore,,,,"ENCORE!"🎉🎉💪👏👏✊

[@MsDisneylandlover]

I heard of this movie never saw it.

[@johncbny]

You are here now, so time to watch it…

[@amosjohnson863]

Saw it in 1975 at the drive in with parents with Cooley high school

[@Prettyflykey]

"He killed cornbread and he wasn't doing nothing!!!!!"

[@Michelle-kf8me]

I was a puppy when this movie was made didn't even here of it gosh nuf good actors in it huggy bear 😂🇬🇧

[@JosephMBeers]

I was 9 when I saw this movie 🎥 classic in NYC 🏀 playing ball

[@tswpholla]

Today 2024 is my first time seeing this (I believe.) I'm 45 yo. I was a little disappointed because some scenes were muted but pretty good movie 🔥🔥

[@vnonkwinn6233]

OLDIE BUT GOODY.

[@robertmitchell9529]

Crazy how in the opening credits it said "Introducing Lawrence Fishburne" That movie is an all time classic, just didn't like the ending. I was 9 years old when that movie came out in 1975.

[@JillianJohn-ds4gu]

Love this movie

[@teardrop7168]

IM TRYNA DO SOME POUNDING MYSELF😂😂😂

[@AquillaJones-ly5ue]

This my first time seeing this movie

[@KeithReynolds-k6w]

Cornbread Keith Wilkes turned to Jamal Wilkes (UCLA and Lakers) after he converted to Islam. Wow, a young Huggy Bear. Music composed by Donald Byrd, jazz great! Fishburne and other iconic future movie stars. These 70s movies had a good message even being low budget. Shows that we had ongoing issues with those who were to serve and protect.

[@jillvaughn5010]

What happen to the volume?

[@TheLordIsMyShepard]

Just Beautiful ❤

[@jillvaughn5010]

Where is the volume?

[@rhondalong152]

19:40 what happened to the sound? The sound doesn't come back until 22:30

[@Doreen-b6k]

I remember their names all over in graffiti.when I was growing up.

[@constancehaynes8528]

This movie my goodness nothing has changed. I couldn't finish the movie.

[@LurlineThompson-Pile]

My word😮

[@koolbugz]

good movie

[@TonyG-b2s]

Keith Wilkes became Jamal Wilkes, UCLA and Laker great.

[@michellejones4653]

❤ it soo true

[@Q................]

LF was a child star?.. who knew and didn't tell me?😢😂😂😂

[@Chalky52]

You shot cornbread..

[@latishabennett702]

I'm 41 years old born in 83 ,first time seeing this 😮😮😮 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾👍🏽

[@Anthony-s4v]

Black classic god bless

[@LurlineThompson-Pile]

A bunch of cowards. A soldier died for what he believed in.

[@DoubeEdged7]

Cornbread was an LA Laker

[@blacktreemedia]

Jámaal Wilks

[@Dogg-zd2mb]

I was only 4yrs old

[@kevinmorrow4038]

Man I was -4 when this came out lol

[@ronaldblue5564]

Good stuff 👍👍😊😊

[@LurlineThompson-Pile]

God is the witness 😮.

[@kennypeele7507]

Man what yaw know about this lol

[@blacktreemedia]

Every Saturday Morning we are dropping an oldie but goodie.

[@kennypeele7507]

@@blacktreemedia I hope to see Which Way Is Up be on here

[@blacktreemedia]

@@kennypeele7507 ohhh. That’s a good one. Not this Saturday but let me work on it , see if I can get distro rights

[@MarvelGreenaway]

..and Cooliy High ..by Spike Lee​@@blacktreemedia

[@peterdavis8471]

Glad I grew up in that Era 😊😊😊

[@hirammckinney8688]

Creative Uplift: To the North East South and Westworld wide may the Blessing of Heaven continue to shine upon you and yours on this beautiful day of the Lord Jesus Christ and God 2024. So mote it be ✝️. Amen 🙏. RQQ 👍✨.

[@MarkWestbrook-kq9wr]

Lil ike Turner

[@carltonbanks5470]

The black mothers in this classic 70s film are not big fat sassy and chunky. If they remake this movie in 2024 it's guaranteed they will be. Smdh