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Friday, September 26, 2008

Hell Up in Harlem (1973)





























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Recovering from an onslaught of bullets that would have killed a lesser man, Tommy Gibbs is out for revenge against DiAngelo (Gerald Gordon, One Man’s Way), a sleazy New York District Attorney with mob ties who set up the hit-gone-wrong. Tommy, with the aid of his father, Papa Gibbs (Julius W. Harris, Super Fly) is soon on the mend and putting his Harlem empire back on track. But there’s a catch. Could Tommy’s near-death experience has changed the man who was once called the “Overlord of the Underworld”? Is redemption stronger than temptation? All will be revealed in the action-packed sequel to Black Caesar.

Golden Needles (1974)
















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Various factions are fighting each other to gain possession of a very special statue. The statue itself is not worth much, the needles inside it are the true prize. These "golden needles" hold extraordinary and unique properties, if inserted in the right positions in a man he will gain super sexual prowess, if placed incorrectly he dies.

Monday, September 22, 2008

One Down, Two to Go (1982)
























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The stage is set of old-school vengeance as fight promoter Ralph (Richard Roundtree) and kung fu master Chuck (Jim Kelly) discover that their big-money karate tournament has been rigged by the Mob. But when Chuck and Ralph are shot, they call in their partners Cal (Fred Williamson) and J (Jim Brown) to help settle the score. Can the four hardest players in the game tear apart a small town to find the crime boss who set up the double cross?