Harlem Action - Eine schwarze Komödie

Harlem Action - Eine schwarze Komödie (1991)

A Rage in Harlem

Harlem 1956: Gangsterbiene Imabelle ist auf der Flucht vor alten "Freunden" und schlüpft ausgerechnet beim frommen Bestatter Jackson unter. Schnell verdreht sie dem keuschen Knaben den Kopf. Kann er sie vor ihren Verfolgern retten?

Erscheinungsdatum
1991-05-03
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (58)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 45 Min.
Genres
Krimi, Komödie
Regie
Bill Duke

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

  • Basiert auf: For Love of Imabelle

A Rage in Harlem is a 1991 American crime film directed by Bill Duke and loosely based on Chester Himes' novel A Rage in Harlem. The film stars Forest Whitaker, Danny Glover, Badja Djola, Robin Givens and Gregory Hines. Producer Stephen Woolley intended it to be a comedy film, and several reviewers have described it as such, but this categorization has been disputed by director Bill Duke.

Production

The film was shot in the Cincinnati, Ohio, neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine, whose "un-gentrified area of the old downtown lower depths stood in quite nicely for ... 1950s Harlem." About midway during production, it turned out that Duke and Woolley had undiscussed differences about the tone the film was going to take:

About halfway through we [Woolley and Duke] were looking at a scene, and I turned to Bill [Duke] and said 'You know, that wasn't quite as funny as it was in the script. And I don't know why. And he said to me, 'We're not making no god-damn comedy.' I'd raised the entire money for this film on the basis that it was a comedy. It was Chester Himes, it was supposed to be funny. And a shiver went down my spine...I hoped that Bill was joking.

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