A Rage in Harlem
The film centers on a gangster 's sexy girlfriend and the trouble she gets . She flees, look for the safe place to hide stolen gold. Suddenly, she confronts Jackson whom she falls for so her life becomes chaos.
7 February 1928, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
21 July 1952, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
16 October 1952, Galveston, Texas, USA
27 November 1964, New York City, New York, USA
August 05, 2013
It bleeds for a kind of Harlem justice, as its intense black characters act tough, nasty, sexy, twisty, heroic and lively.
July 01, 2013
Based on Chester Himes's novel, this is a stylish, fast-moving and often humorous thriller from Deep Cover director Bill Duke.
July 01, 2013
As the movie becomes increasingly violent and unpleasant, the characters chase around after each other in a threadbare gangster plot about a trunk of gold.
July 01, 2013
That extraordinary cast, directed by Bill Duke, has little to do other than idle between sporadic outbursts of sadistic violence.
July 01, 2013
Duke and company have been true to Himes' brash, blaspheming spirit, and that is no small thing.
July 01, 2013
Jazzy and jauntily funny.
July 01, 2013
Bill Duke's Harlem has the heft of an imaginatively heightened reality; it's a great place to visit.
July 01, 2013
[A] flamboyant, engaging action comedy.
July 01, 2013
A Rage in Harlem is the kind of film that, every ten minutes or so, requires violent bloodshed or a sexual rendezvous to prevent audiences from becoming glassy-eyed and slack-jawed.
July 01, 2013
It's largely a cheap looking, tawdry affair, with tortuous interludes in which the humour devolves on gratuitous unpleasantness or tired old bad jokes at the expense of women.
July 01, 2013
With its snazzy Elmer Bernstein score, its snappy period flavor and its all-star cast doing something completely different, A Rage in Harlem should have been much more fun than it is.
July 01, 2013
Underneath the fancy trappings, however, is a disappointingly ordinary caper movie that moves far too slowly for a picture of this type.
