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    Black Caesar (1973)

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    Ex-football player Fred Williamson portrays Tommy Gibbs, a ruthlessly ambitious young man who climbs to the top of the New York crime syndicate by first wooing and then exterminating Mafia leaders.

    Building up the Harlem turf given to him by a white gang leader, Gibbs quickly becomes well-heeled, hires a syndicate lawyer, buys the lawyer’s condominium apartment completely furnished (Gibbs’ mother is the maid there and he gives her the place) and steals the Mafia’s incriminating ledgers detailing years of bribes to city officials, thus ensuring the police won’t touch his burgeoning operation.

    His killings and other pastimes offend his playmate Helen (Gloria Hendry), who takes up with his best friend, Joe (Phillip Roye).

    Art Lund appears as the corrupt racist cop, McKinney, who ends up having to shine Gibbs’ shoes while singing Mammy in blackface. The amazing ending was shot on the streets of New York, with Gibbs being gunned down in front of Tiffany’s.

    A rushed sequel, Hell Up in Harlem, hit screens just 11 months after Black Caesar was released.

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    Tommy Gibbs
    Fred Williamson
    Helen
    Gloria Hendry
    Momma Gibbs
    Minnie Gentry
    McKinney
    Art Lund
    Mr Gibbs
    Julius W Harris
    Reverend Rufus
    D’urville Martin
    Crawdaddy
    Don Pedro Colley
    Cardoza
    Val Avery
    Joe Washington
    Phillip Roye
    Alfred Coleman
    William Wellman Jr
    Bryant
    James Dixon
    Grossfield
    Patrick McAllister
    Virginia Coleman
    Myrna Hansen
    Tommy as a Boy
    Omer Jeffrey
    Joe as a Boy
    Michael Jeffrey

    Director
    Larry Cohen

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