Black Caesar 1973  R, 93 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Larry Cohen
Cast: Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry, Art Lund, D'Urville Martin, Julius Harris, Minnie Gentry, Philip Roye, William Wellman Jr., Val Avery, James Dixon, Patrick McAllister, Don Pedro Colley, Myrna Hansen, Omer Jeffrey, Michael Jeffrey
Tommy Gibbs (Omer Jeffrey) was a tough kid from the ghetto who aimed to be a big-time gangster. Tommy's (now played by Fred Williamson) dreams are fulfilled, and he has risen near the top in the crime scene and is a member of "The Family." But he doesn't intend to stop there. There is a sequel: "Hell Up in Harlem."
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Crimewave 1985  PG-13, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Broken Hearts and Noses
The XYZ Murders
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Louise Lasser, Paul L. Smith, Brion James, Sheree J. Wilson, Edward R. Pressman, Bruce Campbell, Antonio Fargas, Frances McDormand, Julius Harris, Richard Bright, Reed Birney, John Hardy
You have to watch closely to have any chance of understanding this one, which involves flashbacks by a Nerd framed for a murder while he sits in the electric chair.
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Friday Foster 1975 R, 90 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Director: Arthur Marks
Cast: Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto, Godfrey Cambridge, Thalmus Rasulala, Eartha Kitt, Jim Backus, Scatman Crothers, Carl Weathers, Ted Lange, Tierre Turner, Paul Benjamin, Jason Bernard, Ed Cambridge, Julius Harris, Rosalind Miles
As in the comic strip, our heroine Friday Foster (Pam Grier) is a fashion photographer who leads a double life in her fight for truth and justice. This time, she hears about an assassination conspiracy originating in Washington, D.C., and heads there with private detective Colt Hawkins (Yaphet Kotto) to track down the conspirators.
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A Gathering of Old Men 1987  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Murder on the Bayou
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Cast: Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Widmark, Holly Hunter, Joe Seneca, Woody Strode, Julius Harris, Will Patton, Adam Storke, Dave Petitjean, Rosanna Carter, Tiger Haynes, Papa John Creach, Walter Breaux, Joe "Flash" Riley, Danny Barker
This is an excellent drama depicting social mores of rural Louisiana. When a White racist is shot, plantation manager Candy Marshall (Holly Hunter) gathers together a group of 18 elderly Black men to keep vigilantes away from the chief suspect, Black sharecropper Mathu (Louis Gossett Jr.). Sheriff Mapes (Richard Widmark) does confront them, and the men courageously step forward as a unit and claim responsibility for the act.
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Hell Up in Harlem 1973 R, 94 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Larry Cohen
Cast: Fred Williamson, Julius Harris, Gloria Hendry, Margaret Avery, D'Urville Martin, Tony King, Gerald Gordon, Bobby Ramsen, James Dixon, Esther Sutherland, Charles MacGuire, Ty Randolph, Janelle Webb, Al Kirk
In this sequel to "Black Caesar," Tommy Gibbs (Fred Williamson) is back–yes, he survived the injuries sustained in the gangland war–and reassembles his team. Now, with help from his estranged father Papa Gibbs (Julius Harris), Tommy builds up his criminal empire. Meanwhile, Tommy's henchman Zach (Tony King) and corrupt District Attorney DiAngelo (Gerald Gordon) plot against them, and Zach kills Papa. Now, there is no doubt that there will be hell up in Harlem when Tommy seeks revenge. Lots of violence.
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Islands in the Stream 1977 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland, Susan Tyrrell, Richard Evans, Claire Bloom, Julius Harris, Hart Bochner, Charles Lampkin, Hildy Brooks, Brad Savage, Michael-James Wixted, Jessica Rains, Walter Friedel
Ernest Hemmingway's novel is brought to the screen with George C. Scott in the role of wealthy Thomas Hudson, an artist in self-exile on the island of Bimini in the Bahamas during 1940. World War II is threatening when Thomas' oldest son Tom (Hart Bochner) arrives on the island. Their relationship grows closer, but then Tom leaves to fight for the RAF. Later, Thomas' ex-wife Audrey (Claire Bloom) arrives and tells Thomas that Tom was killed in the war. The news causes Thomas to change his opinions about the war and his lifestyle. He agrees to smuggle Jewish refugees onto his "perfect" island.
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 King Kong 1976 PG, 134 min.
Genre: Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller / Romance
Director: John Guillermin
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, John Randolph, Rene Auberjonois, Julius Harris, Jack O'Halloran, Ed Lauter, John Agar, Dennis Fimple, Jorge Moreno, Mario Gallo, John Lone, Garry Walberg, Keny Long
Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin) is an oil magnate sailing to a Pacific island looking for petroleum. Also on board is stowaway paleontologist Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges) who warns that prehistoric monsters inhabit the island. While still heading for the island, they pick up Dwan (Jessica Lange, in her film debut) who has been shipwrecked. They arrive on the island, run into King Kong, and Dwan becomes the object of Kong's attention. Wilson locks Kong up in the cargo hold of the ship and brings him to New York City where Kong escapes and climbs the World Trade Center looking for safety.
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Let's Do It Again 1975 PG, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sidney Poitier
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, John Amos, Jimmie Walker, Ossie Davis, Denise Nicholas, Mel Stewart, Julius Harris, Val Avery
Two Atlanta members (Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby) of a fraternal lodge find a way to con gamblers by using the occult to turn Bootney Farnsworth (Jimmie Walker) into a winning prizefighter. This film follows "Uptown Saturday Night" and is followed by "A Piece of the Action."
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 Live and Let Die 1973 PG, 121 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Roger Moore, Jane Seymour, Yaphet Kotto, Geoffrey Holder, Clifton James, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, David Hedison, Julius Harris, Gloria Hendry, Tommy Lane, Madeline Smith, Robert Dix, Roy Stewart, Earl Jolly Brown
This is the eighth agent 007 film, but it is the first with Roger Moore in the starring role. In this installment, James Bond is on the trail of a Caribbean-based drug dealer. As with the previous seven 007 films, this one has plenty of gadgetry, beautiful women, and wild chases. It's not up to the standards of the others, though, except for the title song by Paul McCartney.
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Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence 1992  R, 85 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: William Lustig, Joel Soisson
Cast: Robert Davi, Robert Z'Dar, Caitlin Dulany, Gretchen Becker, Paul Gleason, Jackie Earle Haley, Julius Harris, Grand L. Bush, Doug Savant, Robert Forster
The zombie psycho cop (Robert Z'Dar) is back, and he seeks revenge while on a rampage of terror. He intends to protect the woman cop (Gretchen Becker) who is in a coma and accused of using excess force during a shootout. Bad stuff happens.
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My Chauffeur 1986 R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Beaird
Cast: Deborah Foreman, Sam J. Jones, E.G. Marshall, Sean McClory, Howard Hesseman, Penn Jillette, Teller, John O'Leary, Julius Harris, Laurie Main, Elaine Wilkes, Stanley Brock, Jack Stryker, Ben Slack, Vance Colvig Jr.
When Casey Meadows (Deborah Foreman) begins work as a limousine driver, she is not greeted warmly by the all-male staff. As a matter of course, Casey is given the worst jobs, but romance blooms when she gets to know one of her fares, Battle (Sam J. Jones).
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Nothing But a Man 1964 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Roemer
Cast: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris, Gloria Foster, Martin Priest, Leonard Parker, Yaphet Kotto, Stanley Greene, Helen Lounck, Helene Arrindell, Mel Stewart
In Alabama during the 1950s, a young Black couple–Duff (Ivan Dixon) and Josie (Abbey Lincoln)–struggle in the midst of racial prejudice to live lives of dignity.
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 Shaft's Big Score! 1972 R, 105 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Gordon Parks
Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Drew Bundini Brown, Joseph Mascolo, Kathy Imrie, Wally Taylor, Julius Harris, Rosalind Miles, Joe Santos, Angelo Nazzo
Richard Roundtree is back in the role of P.I. John Shaft in this follow-up to the hit film "Shaft" made the year before. This time around, the violence is high as Shaft sets out to recover a big bundle of money that is missing after his friend, who owned a mortuary and ran a numbers game on the side, is blown up. Since the money is going to a worthy cause, Shaft fights the crime bosses of Harlem who want the money. He finds the money in a coffin, and the chase is on.
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Slaves 1969  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Herbert J. Biberman
Cast: Ossie Davis, Stephen Boyd, Nancy Coleman, David Huddleston, Shepperd Strudwick, Gale Sondergaard, Dionne Warwick, Julius Harris, Marilyn Clark, Eva Jessye, Robert Kya-Hill
Luke (Ossie Davis) suffers at the hands of a cruel plantation owner, McKay (Stephen Boyd), in this very out-dated film about racial relationships. Highlight: Gale Sondergaard returns to films after 20 years, having been blacklisted for her political views in the late 1940s.
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Superfly 1972 R, 95 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Gordon Parks Jr.
Cast: Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier, Julius Harris, Charles McGregor, Nate Adams, Polly Niles, Yvonne Delaine, Henry Shapiro, Mike Richards, Fred Rolaf, James G. Richardson
Harlem cocaine dealer Youngblood Priest (Ron O'Neal) wants to get out of the business but first must make one last drug deal.
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| 1. Black Caesar (1973)
2. Crimewave (1985)
aka: Broken Hearts and Noses
aka: The XYZ Murders
3. Friday Foster (1975)
4. A Gathering of Old Men (1987)
aka: Murder on the Bayou
5. Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
6. Islands in the Stream (1977)
7. King Kong (1976)
8. Let's Do It Again (1975)
9. Live and Let Die (1973)
10. Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1992)
11. My Chauffeur (1986)
12. Nothing But a Man (1964)
13. Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
14. Slaves (1969)
15. Superfly (1972)
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