Come Back, Charleston Blue
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Come Back, Charleston Blue

A ghost has come back to Harlem--and started the wildest gang war ever.

4.8 / 10 1972 1h 40mPG English
CrimeActionComedy

Storyline

Sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black gangster, dead 4 decades. When he seems to have reappeared, once again slitting throats with his Blue straight edge razors, the two cops begin a complicated search for some answers.

Cast & Crew

Godfrey Cambridge

Godfrey Cambridge

Gravedigger Jones

Lead
Raymond St. Jacques

Raymond St. Jacques

Coffin Ed Johnson

Peter De Anda

Peter De Anda

Joe

Percy Rodriguez

Percy Rodriguez

Bryce

JA

Jonelle Allen

Carol

MG

Maxwell Glanville

Caspar

Minnie Gentry

Minnie Gentry

Her Majesty

DS

Dick Sabol

Jarema

What People Are Saying

3.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Mark Warren's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. Come Back, Charleston Blue is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker