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Hell Up In Harlem

1973, Movie, R, 94 mins

Hell Up In Harlem: Review

Dying at the end of BLACK CAESAR (1973) didn't prevent gangster Tommy Gibbs from returning in this hastily assembled sequel. Unfocused, meandering, disconnected, and thoroughly implausible, it nonetheless has even more well-handled action and restless energy than the original. Tommy Gibbs (Fred Williamson), shot by assassins, stumbles uptown to meet his father (Julius Harris), who hides a set of ledgers that Gibbs has obtained which detail government officials on the take. A... read more leave a comment

Hell Up In Harlem: Cast & Details

Year: 1973
Rated R

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Cast
Fred Williamson: Tommy Gibbs
Julius Harris: Papa Gibbs
Gloria Hendry: Helen Bradley
Margaret Avery: Sister Jennifer
D'Urville Martin: Reverend Rufus
Tony King: Zach

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Hell Up In Harlem: TV Guide News

Blaxploitation King Returns! | Today's News: Our Take | 1/21/2004
In 1969, NFL star Fred Williamson — called the Hammer for his defensive moves — left football for Hollywood and became a head-busting king of '70s blaxploitation flicks. Today, Williamson, 65, is an independent producer-director, ruler of his own direct-to-video movie empire and, he says, still the man. On Jan. 20, MGM released a couple of his early masterpieces, Hammer and Hell up in Harlem, along with several other blaxploitation films, on DVD. Here, TV Guide Online tries to nail Williamson — but the Hammer hits back. TV Guide Online: You don't like the term blaxploitation?Fred Williamson: I could never understand [it.] At the time I was making my films, Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood were making theirs. No one dubbed them whitexploitation. So what did it mean? Who was being exploited? All the black actors were being paid more money than they ever were before, playing characters we respected. Audie read more

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