Black Caesar (1973)
Directed by Larry Cohen
Raised in Harlem, Tommy Gibbs becomes a successful mob boss but he clashes with the rival Mafia and his old enemy, dirty cop McKinney.
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What critics compared Black Caesar to
American Gangster is not Scott's Black Caesar or Scarface.
The script by B-movie veteran Larry Cohen (Maniac Cop, It's Alive! and Black Caesar) makes the most out of the claustrophobic situation.
So Blazing Saddles is funny, yet in another way it’s quite serious – especially if you place the movie in context with the blaxploitation genre, which by 1974 had recently peaked with the likes of Shaft , Super Fly and Black Caesar .