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The Mack
Why this pick
Like Black Caesar, it follows a Harlem operator building power in a hostile urban economy, with a tough, street-level mood and a sharp eye for the compromises behind criminal success.
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MOVIE1973 1h 34m USA
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Tommy Gibbs (Fred Williamson) is an African-American who grew up in Harlem, New York City. As a kid, he was brutally assaulted by a cop named McKinney. The incident led him to a life of crime. As an adult, he joins the New York American Mafia and becomes the head of a black crime syndicate in Harlem. He wages a gang war with the Italian people mobsters of New York City and begins to establish a criminal empire, keeping a ledger book of all his dealings as leverage over his business associates, including McKinney.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Art Lund
McKinney
D'Urville Martin
Rev. Rufus
Minnie Gentry
Mama Gibbs
William Wellman Jr.
Alfred Coleman
James Dixon
Bryant
Gloria Hendry
Helen
Fred Williamson
Tommy Gibbs
Julius Harris
Mr. Gibbs