![]() ![]() ![]() Calhoune and his remaining men go to Ray's hideout, where they trigger hidden explosives that kill all of them. Vera, seemingly afraid for her safety, visits Calhoune and tells him where to find Ray and Quick. An enraged Calhoune realizes that Ray is behind all of his recent setbacks. Richie arrives to deliver Calhoune's money from earlier, but realizes that his bag has been switched with the one holding Sunshine's "heroin", which turns out to be sugar. It turns out to be a trap, and Ray's crew seal Cantone inside a bank vault, but promise to call the police precinct to let him out when they have made their clean getaway. Quick and Ray arrive at a closed bank with Cantone following them. At the fight, Calhoune realizes it was not fixed as he thought, and then receives word that his Pitty Pat Club has been destroyed. With Calhoune's gang distracted, two of Ray's men seize the opportunity to blow up his "Pitty Pat Club". Richie explains that he is on a run for Bugsy Calhoune, so they let him go. Quick manages to switch the bag holding Calhoune's money with the one Sunshine had placed in the car before two white policemen suddenly arrive to investigate the accident. Ray and Quick, claiming to be law officers, attempt to arrest Richie, telling him that the woman he is riding around with is a drug dealer. Richie agrees to meet her on the way to collect some money for Calhoune, only to get in a car accident orchestrated by Ray's henchman Jimmy. In retaliation, Sunshine goes to Richie and asks him to help her with a pickup. Calhoune sends LaRue to seduce and kill Quick, but Quick anticipates this and kills LaRue with a gun hidden under his pillow.Ĭalhoune has Club Sugar Ray burned down. Quick shoots his attackers dead in self-defense and flees. A sexy call girl named Sunshine is used to distract Calhoune's bag man, Richie Vinto, ensuring the theft is carried out successfully.Ĭalhoune has Tommy Smalls killed for theft before Quick is noticed near the scene by Tommy's brother, Reggie, who takes two men and corners him in an empty storefront. Secretly, Ray instructs his men to intercept the bets Calhoune's friends and associates have bet on the match and steal them. Ray places a large bet on Kirkpatrick to make Calhoune think he paid Jenkins to throw the fight. An upcoming fight between boxer Michael Kirkpatrick and defending champion (and loyal Club Sugar Ray patron) Jack Jenkins is expected to bring in large sums of money in bets. Ray decides to relocate rather than pay, but only after making sure his friends and workers are taken care of. Phil Cantone to threaten Ray with having the club shut down unless Calhoune gets a cut. Later, Calhoune sends corrupt policeman Sgt. Tommy Smalls, a black enforcer working for white gangster Bugsy Calhoune, and Miss Dominique LaRue, Calhoune's mistress, arrive to assess the club's profitability. Twenty years later, Ray and Quick, now wealthy club owners, run a nightclub called "Club Sugar Ray", with gambling and dancing in the front, and a brothel in the back that's run by Ray's old friend Madame Vera. After being told that his parents are dead, Ray decides to raise the boy as his own, naming him "Quick" on account of his savvy. Nearly killed by an angry gambler who threatens him with a switchblade, Ray is saved by seven-year-old errand boy Vernest Brown, who shoots the man with Ray's gun. In 1918 Harlem, small-time hustler Sugar Ray is running a craps game. It has since been regarded as a cult classic. Nonetheless, the film was a financial success, grossing $95 million against a $30 million budget. ![]() He had always wanted to direct and star in a period piece, as well as work with Pryor, whom he considered his greatest influence in stand-up comedy. Harlem Nights was Eddie Murphy's only directorial effort. The film tells the story of "Sugar" Ray and Vernest "Quick" Brown as a team running a nightclub in the late 1930s in Harlem while contending with gangsters and corrupt police officials. The film was released theatrically on November 17, 1989, by Paramount Pictures. The film co-stars Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx (in his last film appearance before his death in 1991), Danny Aiello, Michael Lerner, Della Reese, and Murphy's older brother Charlie. Harlem Nights is a 1989 American crime comedy-drama film starring and directed by Eddie Murphy, who also wrote.
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