
Early Riser
Early Riser
A Drama film released in 2011, Early Riser runs 5m and comes from the United States. Soap2Day lists it with Kevin Jerome Everson directing and James McGilbray and Dawon Owens in the cast. 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.
- Genre: Drama
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Kevin Jerome Everson
- Cast: James McGilbray, Dawon Owens, Robert Stewart

















