Harlem Nights

About Harlem Nights

'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.

Eddie Murphy's Harlem Nights is a 1989 comedy crime film. It runs 116 minutes and was released in November 1989.

Its themes are corruption, rivalry, 1920s, and nightclub.

Eddie Murphy appears as Quick, Richard Pryor as Sugar Ray, Redd Foxx as Bennie Wilson, and Danny Aiello as Phil Cantone. The screenplay is by Eddie Murphy. Produced by Eddie Murphy Productions. In the United States it streams on Philo, Starz, and Starz Amazon Channel.

Let's Be Cops, The Cotton Club, and SuperFly make useful companions to Harlem Nights, all filed under police. TMDB voters put it at 6.1 out of 10 across 374 votes and it carries a R rating.