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Black Caesar [Region 2] dvd movie. Home » DVD Movies » Actors/Actresses » J » Orher A » James Dixon Orher A • Jason Presson Orher A • John Steiner Orher A • Jake Busey Orher A • Joseph C Phillips Orher A • James Horan Orher A • John Byner Orher A • Jennifer Oneill Orher A • John Welsh Orher A • James Shigeta Orher A • James Russo Orher A • Jeremy Lelliott Orher A • Jayne Atkinson Black Caesar [Region 2] dvd videos, dvd movies reviews Features • PAL In Theaters : 07 February, 1973 [ + Zoom ]   [ Buy Now ] DVD : This item is currently not available. Black Caesar [Region 2] description Shot on the streets of New York, writer-director Larry Cohen captures the bustle and color of the city in this violent, low-budget crime film. Ambitious Tommy Gibbs (a swaggering, self-confident Fred Williamson) has risen from shoeshine boy to Harlem crime lord, but he wants a bigger piece of the pot. With a racist, high-ranking cop (Art Lund) in his ... review details Black Caesar [Region 2] Customer Reviews   1     2     3   ♥♥♥♥♥ It's Okay but nothing special After about two viewings of Black Caesar I am rather disappointed with the results. The movie in hearled by many on amazon and by critics as being one of the better so-called blaxpoltation movies. Despite all the recommendations, I was not overly impressed by Black Caesar. The movie does have many important chracters,elements,and plot but what makes the movie suffer is the bad acting of Fred Williamson. Williamson's preformance is much too wooden and flat to bring interest into a figure like Tommy Gibbs. Williamson is not alone either with most of his supporting cast providing little substance. The notable exception is the racist Irish cop played by Art Lund. The script was written by a white[I am guessing Jewish] Larry Cohen and it definately shows. The dialogue is flat,boring,and unrealistic for the 50's Harlem setting. The script also is severly flawed by the same instances. Black Caesar,while not being an awful film, has very little entertainment value. Many films actually are worse than Black Caesar but have a great amount of entertainment value. Black Caesar aspires to be a serious gangster film but falls from glory. Quite disappointing considering the freshness of the story. The story of a ghetto kid rising up in the mafia underworld would be compelling even in modern cinema. For many that might not know the movie is supposed to be loosely based upon real life black gangsters named Nikki Barnes and Frank Matthews. Ironically, Frank Matthews was a gangster from the 60's-70's that ran most of the ghettoes in NYC including Harlem.   1     2     3   Non User