10 Jan 1930
Playing Around
New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go.
A Rage in Harlem
In the next 24 hours they'll have to outrun the law, outsmart the mob and outshoot the competition.
A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavoury characters, are on her trail. A pudgy momma's boy becomes the object of her affections and the unlikely hero of the tale.
Top Billed Cast
Forest Whitaker Jackson
Gregory Hines Goldy
Robin Givens Imabelle
Danny Glover Easy Money
Samm-Art Williams Gus Parsons
Zakes Mokae Big Kathy
T.K. Carter Smitty
Stack Pierce Coffin Ed
Anthonia Kitchen Mourner
Screamin' Jay Hawkins Self
Reynaldo Rey Blind Man
Willard E. Pugh Claude X
Tyler Collins Teena
Badja Djola Slim
John Toles-Bey Jodie
Wendell Pierce Louis
George Wallace Grave Digger
Leonard Jackson Mr. Clay
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