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Black Caesar
Directed by
Larry Cohen
R
1973
1h 35m
Action
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Crime
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6.4
67%
62%
5.8
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Raised in Harlem, Tommy Gibbs becomes a successful mob boss but he clashes with the rival Mafia and his old enemy, dirty cop McKinney.
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Cast of Black Caesar
Fred Williamson
Tommy Gibbs
Gloria Hendry
Helen
Art Lund
McKinney
D'Urville Martin
Rev. Rufus
Julius Harris
Mr. Gibbs
Minnie Gentry
Mama Gibbs
Philip Roye
Joe Washington
William Wellman Jr.
Alfred Coleman
James Dixon
"Irish" Bryant / Associate Producer
Val Avery
Cardoza
Patrick McAllister
Grossfield
Don Pedro Colley
"Craw"
Myrna Hansen
Virginia Coleman
Omer Jeffrey
Tommy (as a boy)
Michael Jeffrey
Joe (as a boy)
Allan Bailey
"Motor" / Production Manager
Cecil Alonzo
"Sport"
Francisco De Gracia
Cab Driver
Larry Lurin
Carlos / Production Design
Andrew Duggan
Man at Shoeshine (uncredited)
Black Caesar Ratings & Reviews
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Fred Williamson sells this fairly entertaining yarn.
New Pittsburgh Courier
Gregory Mims
The acting, though spotty, is generally convincing. In fact, this may just be the best performance Fred Williamson has given to date.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
By today's standards, it's incredibly problematic rendering of urban certainties has the tendency to repulse, and yet Cohen instills Williamson with a bit of presence and dignity often lacking in other Blaxploitation films from white directors.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
not 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.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
"Paid the cost to be the boss," declares James Brown on the soundtrack, and Black Caesar functions as an itemized bill.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
a distinctive pastiche of the tough cynical attitudes held by oppressed minorities the world over.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It plays to urban black audiences' fears and fantasies.
TV Guide
Writer-director Larry Cohen's clever and entertaining paean to traditional gangster films (a la Little Caesar) updates the genre to contemporary Harlem and was a major hit with urban audiences.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Suffused with socio-political resentment and enlivened by James Brown's classic soul-funk soundtrack.
New York Times
Mr. Williamson, in short, can't be blamed for the plot contrivances that hinge mostly on action and bloodshed.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Cohen's technique is almost laughably crude, but a core of frightening conviction remains.
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