Original Gangstas | |
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Directed by | Larry Cohen |
Written by | Aubrey K. Rattan |
Produced by | Wolf Schmidt Fred Williamson |
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Cinematography | Carlos González |
Edited by | Peter B. Ellis David Kern |
Music by | Vladimir Horunzhy |
Production company | Po' Boy Productions |
Distributed by | Orion Pictures |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3.6 million[1] |
Box office | $4,000,000 (US)[2] |
Original Gangstas is a 1996 action-gangster film filmed and set in urban Gary, Indiana starring Blaxploitation film stars such as Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Jim Brown, Richard Roundtree, and Ron O'Neal.[3] It is the final film directed by Larry Cohen before his death in 2019,[4] though he continued to write screenplays through 2010.
The film details the deteriorating state of an impoverished Gary neighborhood terrorized by a street gang called the Rebels. When the gang murders a local boy, it prompts the emergence of several individuals who grew up in the neighborhood: the original members of the Rebels.[5][6]