Come Back, Charleston Blue

Come Back, Charleston Blue

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

PG 1972 · 100 min · ★ 4.8 · Crime, Action, Comedy

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.

Directed by Mark Warren · Written by Bontche Schweig

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Godfrey Cambridge Gravedigger Jones
Raymond St. Jacques Coffin Ed Johnson
Peter De Anda Joe
Percy Rodriguez Bryce
Jonelle Allen Carol
Maxwell Glanville Caspar
Minnie Gentry Her Majesty
Dick Sabol Jarema
Leonardo Cimino Frank Mago
Toney Brealond Drag Queen
Tim Pelt Earl J
Marcia McBroom Girl Barber

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