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Nov 17, 1989 · Harlem Nights: Directed by Eddie Murphy. With Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Danny Aiello. During the 1930s, a New York City illegal gambling house owner and his associates must deal with strong competition, gangsters, and corrupt cops in order to stay in business.
Harlem Nights is a 1989 American crime comedy-drama film starring, written, and directed by Eddie Murphy. The film co-stars Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx (in his last film appearance before his death in 1991), Danny Aiello, Michael Lerner, Della Reese, and Murphy's older brother Charlie.
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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At a motel in Hoboken, New Jersey, Ray and Quick pay the white men who posed as policemen, and gaze at the New York skyline one last time before leaving town with Annie, Vera, Bennie, and Calhoune's bag of cash.
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.
Dec 14, 2005 · 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.
Harlem Nights. By Richard Brody. January 21, 2022. This boldly original, boisterously idiosyncratic, yet introspective drama—a gangland tale, set briefly in 1918 and then mostly...
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. Eddie Murphy. Director, Screenplay.
Harlem Nights - Metacritic. 1989. R. Paramount Pictures. 1 h 56 m. Summary He's Quick with a quip, Quick with a gun. And Quick with a scheme to keep mobsters from muscling in on the 1930's Harlem hot spot, Club Sugar Ray. (Paramount Pictures) Comedy.
