1992
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One night, a gangster named Tommy Smalls (Tommy Ford) arrives at the club with a beautiful Creole woman named Dominique La Rue (Jasmine Guy). Ray recognizes Smalls as the manager of the rival Pitty Pat Club, run by white gangster Bugsy Calhoune (Michael Lerner).
When gangster Bugsy Calhoune (Michael Lerner) learns that Sugar Ray's place is pulling in more money than his own establishment, the Pitty Pat Club, he pays corrupt cop Phil Cantone (Danny Aiello...
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Harlem Nights. Eddie Murphy 's "Harlem Nights" is an uninspired cross between "The Cotton Club" and the characters of Damon Runyon, told in cliches so broad you keep waiting for it to poke fun at itself, but it never does.
Murphy is Quick, Pryor is Sugar Ray, and the two run a sleek Harlem gambling house filled with gorgeous gals and smooth-talking card sharps. Quick and Ray soon discover they have an adversary in gangster Bugsy Calhoun, who wants the club for himself, and is using a corrupt cop and an alluring femme fatale to do the dirty work for him.
Overview. 'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.
Mar 30, 2020 · Harlem Nights. This boldly original, boisterously idiosyncratic, yet introspective drama—a gangland tale, set briefly in 1918 and then mostly in the nineteen-thirties—is the only movie...
Harlem Nights. Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor run the slickest nightclub around in this comedy set in the speakeasy world of 1930s Harlem. 7,522 IMDb 6.1 1 h 55 min 1989. X-Ray R. Comedy · Drama · Emotional · Fun. Free trial of Paramount+, rent, or buy. Watch with Paramount+. Start your 7-day free trial. Rent. HD $3.99. Buy. HD $14.99.
