ORIGINAL GANGSTAS (1996) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1996
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
• Plot: It's time for some O.G. respect! Action legends Fred Williamson (Black Cesar), Jim Brown (Slaughter), Pam Grier (Foxy Brown), Ron O;Neal (Superfly) and Richard Roundtree (Shaft) return to the genre that made them famous in this big, brassy, overblown, pyrotechnic thriller. This action-packed tale of slick, ten-fisted retribution delivers as generous a measure of sensational entertainment as any of the Shaft or Superfly pictures of a generation ago. Bookman (Wiliamson), a former hood who went on to become a big time football star, returns to hisold turf when the gang he founded ends up killing his father. Bookman decides to round up some of his old posse and begin an all-out street war with the vicious thugs and return his old neighborhood to its rightful state of peace and justice. Cult great Larry Cohen (Hell Up In Harlem) directed this fully-loaded thriller also featuring Paul Winfield (Trouble Man), Robert Forster (Vilgilante), Wings Hauser (Vice Squad) with Isabel Sanford (TV's The Jeffersons) and Jazz great Oscar Brown Jr. as Bookman's mom and dad.
• Cast: Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Pam Grier, Paul Winfield, Isabel Sanford, Oscar Brown Jr., Richard Roundtree, Ron O'Neal, Christopher B. Duncan, Eddie Bo Smith Jr., Dru Down, Shyheim Franklin, Robert Forster, Charles Napier, Wings Hauser, Frank Pesce, Godfrey, Tim Rhoze, Seraiah Carol, Dawn Stern, Timothy Lewis, Linda Bright Clay, Kevin Watson, Anthony Snowden, Nick Edenetti, Jacqueline Swike, Kimberly Shufford, Idella Haywood, First Baptist Church Choir, Raymond Taylor, Scarface, Bill Bushwick, Dani Girl, Luniz, The Chi-Lites, Montae Dixon, David Hernandez, Bishop Don Magic Juan, Yukmouth, Larry Cohen, Aubrey K. Rattan
• Director: Larry Cohen
• Runtime: 1:39
• Company: Kino Lorber Incorporated, MGM, Orion
• Media Format: Movie