
Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in New York City's Harlem. Angry at the racist society around him, both criminal and straight, he sees the acquisition of power as the solution to his rage. He performs a free-lance hit on a Mob contract to attract the attention of the head of a Mafia family. Reluc... (Full plot summary below)
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Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in New York City's Harlem. Angry at the racist society around him, both criminal and straight, he sees the acquisition of power as the solution to his rage. He performs a free-lance hit on a Mob contract to attract the attention of the head of a Mafia family. Reluctantly accepted into 'The Family,' he grows increasingly autonomous and aggressive, eventually starting a gang war.
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| ColeSmithey.comCole Smitheya distinctive pastiche of the tough cynical attitudes held by oppressed minorities the world over. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh Larsen"Paid the cost to be the boss," declares James Brown on the soundtrack, and Black Caesar functions as an itemized bill. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames Kendricknot a political movie per se, but it certainly taps into the raging sense of racial injustice that the Civil Rights Era had not managed to fully eradicate. |
| Lessons of DarknessNick SchagerSuffused with socio-political resentment and enlivened by James Brown's classic soul-funk soundtrack. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIt plays to urban black audiences' fears and fantasies. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrCohen's technique is almost laughably crude, but a core of frightening conviction remains. |
| User ReviewAli AUsing the famous E tu Brute as a model, this film and fred williamson tell a powerful story with lots of action. This Film is not a blaxsploitation film. All of the heroes are black |
| User ReviewDavid HOne of my favourite Blaxpoitation Movies written by the Genius Paul Schrader it have Style, entertains and have also a Bunch of Messages on is that it shows the Way from a Shoeshine Boy to a Gangsterboss, that Strength, Power and Brutality is the most sucesfull Way to get Respect and that a regular scalawag can turn to a Gangster with Guts too when he gets in Charge and that the Karma is getting everybody the higher you rise the deeper you fall |
| User ReviewBrian BA terrific film. Kind of like Shaft meets Scarface but better than both combined. And that soundtrack!!! |
| User ReviewAlex SVery entertaining action packed gangster film from the 70's. Fred Williamson is one of the best actors of the Blaxploitation era. |