Black Caesar (film)

Black Caesar, released theatrically in the UK as Godfather of Harlem, is a 1973 American blaxploitation, crime drama film, starring Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry and Julius Harris. The film was written and directed by Larry Cohen. Black Caesar is a remake of the 1931 film Little Caesar. It features a notable musical score Black Caesar by James Brown with heavy input from his bandleader Fred Wesley, his first experience with writing music for film. A sequel titled Hell Up in Harlem was released in late 1973.

He meets and falls in love with a singer named Helen Gloria Hendry and marries her. She is unhappy as he is violent and rapes her. Eventually his enemies conspire with her, leading to an attempt on his life that leaves him shot and wounded. Killing his wouldbe assassins, he returns to his office to retrieve the ledger book. McKinney meets him there, and attempts to humiliate him before killing him. Tommy overpowers McKinney and beats him to death. Retrieving the ledger, a badly wounded Tommy returns to the house where he grew up, but a street gang attacks, robs and, presumably, kills him.The Harlem film sequence was directed by James Signorelli, later to go on to producing films on Saturday Night Live. Some of James Browns songs used in the film were sampled by prominent rap musicians Das EFX and IceT The Boss which is the background music where Tommy Gibbs is shot while crossing a street corner was sampled for IceTs You Played Yourself, and also for Trick Daddys Take It To Da House. More recently, by The Alchemist for Prodigys album Return of the Mac. The song is also sampled on Nas album Gods Son on Get Down. ........

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