Harlem Nights

Harlem Nights is a 1989 American crime comedy film written, executive produced, and directed by Eddie Murphy. Murphy costars with Richard Pryor as a team running a nightclub in late1930s Harlem, New York while contending with gangsters and corrupt police officials. The film also features Michael Lerner, Danny Aiello, Redd Foxx in his last film before his death in 1991, Della Reese, and Murphys brother Charlie Murphy.

In Harlem, New York, 1918, Sugar Ray has a dice game. Nearly killed by an angry customer, Ray is saved when sevenyearold errand boy Quick shoots the man. After being told that his parents are dead, Ray decides to raise Quick.Twenty years later, Ray and Quick run a nightclub called Club Sugar Ray, with a brothel in back run by madam Vera. Smalls, who works for the gangster Bugsy Calhoun, and Miss Dominique LaRue, Calhouns mistress, arrive. Smalls and LaRue have come to see the club and report to Calhoun. Later, Calhoun sends corrupt detective Phil Cantone to threaten Ray with shutting the club down unless Calhoun gets a cut. ........

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