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Black Caesar
- Title
- Black Caesar / directed by Larry Cohen.
- Publication
- Los Angeles, CA : Orion Home Video, 1998.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (94 min.) : sound, color; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Tommy Gibbs (Williamson) grows up in the streets to become Manhattan's first Black godfather who muscles his way into the big time mob racket.
- Series Statement
- Soul Cinema.
- Uniform Title
- Soul cinema.
- Subjects
- Organized crime > New York (State) > New York > Drama
- Gangsters > New York (State) > New York > Drama
- Gangster films
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Drama
- Revenge > Drama
- African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Drama
- Black films and programs
- Detective and mystery films
- African Americans in motion pictures
- Blaxploitation films
- African American criminals > Drama
- Feature films
- Genre/Form
- Blaxploitation films.
- Gangster films.
- Feature films.
- Black films and programs.
- Detective and mystery films.
- Note
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1973.
- Sequel: Hell up in Harlem.
- Credits (note)
- Producer and screenwriter, Larry Cohen ; music composed and performed by James Brown ; Larco Production.
- Performer (note)
- Fred Williamson, Minnie Gentry, Julius W. Harris, D'Urville Martin, Don Pedro Colley, Gloria Hendry, Art Lund, Val Avery, Phillip Roye.
- Call Number
- Sc Visual VRA-301
- ISBN
- 0792899687
- OCLC
- 39372427
- 39372427
- Title
- Black Caesar / directed by Larry Cohen.
- Publisher
- Los Angeles, CA : Orion Home Video, 1998.
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- video
- Type of Carrier
- videocassette
- Series
- Soul Cinema.Soul cinema.
- Cast
- Fred Williamson, Minnie Gentry, Julius W. Harris, D'Urville Martin, Don Pedro Colley, Gloria Hendry, Art Lund, Val Avery, Phillip Roye.
- Credits
- Producer and screenwriter, Larry Cohen ; music composed and performed by James Brown ; Larco Production.
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- Added Author
- Brown, James, 1933-2006, composer.Cohen, Larry, 1936-2019, film producer.Cohen, Larry, 1936-2019, film director.Cohen, Larry, 1936-2019, screenwriter.Williamson, Fred, actor.Gentry, Minnie, -1993, actor.Harris, Julius W., actor.D'Urville, Martin.Colley, Don Pedro, 1938-2017.Hendry, Gloria.Lund, Art.Avery, Val.Roye, Philip.Orion Home Video (Firm)
- Publisher No.
- 2110056 Orion Home Video
- Research Call Number
- Sc Visual VRA-301