Black gangsters in 1930 Harlem fights Dutch Schultz who is trying to horn in on their numbers racket.Black gangsters in 1930 Harlem fights Dutch Schultz who is trying to horn in on their numbers racket.Black gangsters in 1930 Harlem fights Dutch Schultz who is trying to horn in on their numbers racket.
- Awards
- 7 nominations
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaActor Clarence Williams III who plays the character Bub Hewlett, a rival of Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson's, would go on to portray Johnson in the first few scenes of American Gangster (2007) 10 years later.
- GoofsWhile Bumpy and Madame St. Claire are listening to opera on the Victrola, the record playing displays the Okeh label. Okeh Records, founded in 1918 recorded mainly middle-of-the road popular music, standards, light classical and blues, but not opera.
- Quotes
Dutch Schultz: I remember the days when you could get a guy hit for 40 bucks.
Albert Salke: We live in inflationary times
- SoundtracksIt Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Written by Duke Ellington and Irving Mills
Performed by Laurnea Wilkerson
Laurnea Wilkerson appears courtesy of Yab Yum Entertainment
Featured review
A waste of good talent
This film had a lot of talent in it, but it just wasn't very good. It seems like it was a throwback of some of the old blaxploitation films. But I am not sure if they were trying to do that, or if it just came out that way. Anyway, a flat drawn out story, and choppy direction didn't help this movie in the least bit. Even that action scenes weren't very good. See it if you must, but you really aren't missing anything.
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- allar100
- May 22, 2003
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Box office
- Budget
- $30,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $23,499,102
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,162,768
- Sep 1, 1997
- Gross worldwide
- $23,499,102
- Runtime2 hours 10 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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