
A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavoury characters, are on her trail. A pudgy momma's boy becomes the object of her affections and the unlikely hero of the tale.... (Full plot summary below)
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A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavoury characters, are on her trail. A pudgy momma's boy becomes the object of her affections and the unlikely hero of the tale.
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| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittBill Duke directed this mixture of high energy and low vulgarity, which doesn't do justice to the talents of its mostly black cast. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThere's just enough atmosphere, comedy, and raw acting talent in Bill Duke's amiable gangster-caper movie, A Rage In Harlem, to make you wish the plot weren't a complete shambles. |
| VarietyVariety StaffDirector Bill Duke has brought a stylish sheen to A Rage in Harlem, but his mix of comedy and violence in the Chester Himes period crime tale is dubious. |
| All Movie GuideJosh RalskeForgoes good taste in the name of exuberant entertainment. |
| Radio TimesJoanna BerryBased on Chester Himes's novel, this is a stylish, fast-moving and often humorous thriller from Deep Cover director Bill Duke. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenDuke keeps this tangled tale of lust and larceny bouncing with a disreputable, funloving B-movie energy that's hard to resist. |
| Radio TimesJo BerryBased on Chester Himes's novel, this is a stylish, fast-moving and often humorous thriller from Deep Cover director Bill Duke. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonWhat's going to happen is clear almost from the start. What matters are the funny things on the way to the forum. |
| New York TimesVincent CanbyIt's painless, occasionally funny and has a heedlessly incomprehensible plot. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIt bleeds for a kind of Harlem justice, as its intense black characters act tough, nasty, sexy, twisty, heroic and lively. |