BLACK CAESAR - BLU

Details

• Release Year: 1973
• Genre: Drama, Music
• Plot: The brutal assault at the hands of a racist cop will inform the life of Tommy Gibbs (Fred Williamson, Hammer), who will grow up to become the reigning head of Harlem's black mafia in Black Caesar. ; ; Establishing a mob empire that challenges the New York mafia'a stronghold on the city, Tommy will prove himself a worthy opponent and a natural born enemy. His volatile romance with chanteuse Helen (Gloria Hendry, Live and Let Die) will set in motion a series of deadly events that the self-proclaimed criminal kingpin, the Black Caesar, may not escape.; ; Larry Cohen (Hell Up In Harlem), working from his own script, directs the blaxploitation film Black Caesar that co-stars Art Lund (Bucktown), Val Avery (Donnie Brasco) and D'Urville Martin (Sheba, Baby), and features a score by James Brown
• Cast: Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry, Art Lund, D'Urville Martin, Julius Harris, Minnie Gentry, Philip Roye, William Wellman Jr., James Dixon, Val Avery, Patrick McAllister, Don Pedro Colley, Myrna Hansen, Omer Jeffrey, Michael Jeffrey, Allan Bailey, Cecil Alonzo, Francisco De Gracia, Larry Lurin, Andrew Duggan, Woni Spotts, Larry Cohen
• Director: Larry Cohen
• Runtime: 1:35
• Company: Larco, Orion Pictures Corporation, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Olive Films
• Media Format: Movie