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Harlem Nights
'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.
1989 · Directed by Eddie Murphy · 116 min · Comedy · Crime · Drama · 10 frames
Tagline
They're up to something big.
Crew
- Screenplay: Eddie Murphy
- Cinematography: Woody Omens
- Edited by: Alan Balsam, George Bowers
- Music: Herbie Hancock
- Produced by: Mark Lipsky, Robert D. Wachs
Cast
- Eddie Murphy as Quick
- Richard Pryor as Sugar Ray
- Redd Foxx as Bennie Wilson
- Danny Aiello as Phil Cantone
- Michael Lerner as Bugsy Calhoune
- Della Reese as Vera
- Berlinda Tolbert as Annie
- Stan Shaw as Jack Jenkins
- Jasmine Guy as Dominique La Rue
- Vic Polizos as Richie Vento
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: Russian, English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures, Eddie Murphy Productions
- Budget: $30,000,000
- Box office: $60,864,870
- Themes: corruption, police, nightclub, rivalry, friends, hoodlum, nightclub owner, harlem, new york city, 1920s
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