Come Back, Charleston Blue

Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972)

A ghost has come back to Harlem--and started the wildest gang war ever.

Sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black gangster, dead 4 decades. When he seems to have reappeared, once again slitting throats with his Blue straight edge razors, the two cops begin a complicated search for some answers.

Date of release
1972-06-29
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Crime, Action, Comedy
Director
Mark Warren
Collection
Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The Heat's On
  • Filmed in: New York City

Come Back, Charleston Blue is a 1972 American crime comedy film starring Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques, loosely based on Chester Himes' novel The Heat's On. It is a sequel to the 1970 film Cotton Comes to Harlem.

Production

The film was shot in Harlem, which required producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. to negotiate with CORE and other groups over their demands for "money, jobs and control."

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