Add to FavoritesAbout this Broadcast
A great Curtis Mayfield score punctuates this tale of a Harlem cocaine dealer trying to make one last big score so that he can get out of the racket.
1972
English
Crime Drama
Romance
Drama
Action/adventure
Drugs
Crime
Cast & Crew
Ron O'Neal
(Actor)
.. Priest
Sheila E. Frazier
(Actor)
.. Georgia
Charles MacGregor
(Actor)
.. Fat Freddie
Julius Harris
(Actor)
.. Scatter
Polly Niles
(Actor)
.. Cynthia
Yvonne Delaine
(Actor)
.. Mrs. Freddie
Henry Shapiro
(Actor)
.. Robbery Victim
K.C.
(Actor)
.. Pimp
Jim Richardson
(Actor)
.. Junkie
Make Bray
(Actor)
.. Junkie
Mike Richards
(Actor)
.. Deputy Commissioner
Al Kiggins
(Actor)
.. Police
Floyd Levine
(Actor)
.. Police
Cecil Alonzo
(Actor)
.. Militant
Bob Richards
(Actor)
.. Contracted Man
Charles McGregor
(Actor)
.. Fat Freddie
Sig Shore
(Actor)
.. Deputy Commissioner
More Information
Did You Know..
Ron O'Neal
(Actor)
.. Priest
Born:
September 01, 1937
Died: January 14, 2004
Died: January 14, 2004
Trivia:
The son of an erstwhile jazz musician, African-American actor Ron O'Neal was born in Utica and raised in Cleveland. At 18, O'Neal joined the latter city's Karamu House, an experimental interracial theatrical troupe. After nine years with Karamu House, O'Neal headed to New York, where in 1970 he won the Obie award for his performance in No Place to Be Somebody. Despite nominal stage stardom, O'Neal was an unknown quantity in films until exploding on the blaxploitation scene as the drug-dealing priest in the stylish action flick Superfly (1972). He both directed and starred in the sequel Superfly TNT (1973), and later directed 1991's Up Against the Wall. Ron O'Neal's series-TV credits include 1983's Bring 'Em Back Alive as the imperious Sultan of Jahoor, The Equalizer (1985-89) as Lt. Isadore Smalls, and the 1985 miniseries North and South.
Sheila E. Frazier
(Actor)
.. Georgia
Born:
November 13, 1948
Charles MacGregor
(Actor)
.. Fat Freddie
Julius Harris
(Actor)
.. Scatter
Born:
October 17, 2004
Died: October 17, 2004
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: October 17, 2004
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Trivia:
Steely-eyed, incisive African American character actor Julius W. Harris made his first movie appearance in 1964's Nothing But a Man. Harris' subsequent screen roles included the menacing Tee Hee in the 1973 James Bond entry Live and Let Die and African premiere Longo in First Family (1980), who in the film's funniest scene negotiates a slave-trade operation with American President Bob Newhart. On TV, Harris starred in the Flipper-like syndicated series Salty (1974). One of Julius W. Harris' most memorable TV portrayals was as Ugandan President Idi Amin (substituting for Godfrey Cambridge, who died during production) in the feature-length Victory at Entebbe (1976).
Polly Niles
(Actor)
.. Cynthia
Yvonne Delaine
(Actor)
.. Mrs. Freddie
Henry Shapiro
(Actor)
.. Robbery Victim
K.C.
(Actor)
.. Pimp
Jim Richardson
(Actor)
.. Junkie
Make Bray
(Actor)
.. Junkie
Mike Richards
(Actor)
.. Deputy Commissioner
Al Kiggins
(Actor)
.. Police
Floyd Levine
(Actor)
.. Police
Cecil Alonzo
(Actor)
.. Militant
Bob Richards
(Actor)
.. Contracted Man
Charles McGregor
(Actor)
.. Fat Freddie
Born:
September 01, 1922
Sig Shore
(Actor)
.. Deputy Commissioner
Born:
May 13, 1919
Died: August 17, 2006
Died: August 17, 2006
