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Blaxploitation Cinema
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While filming in Harlem, Larry Cohen was accosted by local gangsters who threatened to disrupt the shoot unless they were paid off. Instead, Cohen offered them small roles in the film. They helped so enthusiastically that they attended the premiere to sign autographs.
Originally offered to Sammy Davis Jr., who turned it down because he could not pay the $10,000 for the script due to his issues with the Internal Revenue Service at the time. Davis wanted a project where he would be the star and not play second banana to Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. When Larry Cohen's deal with Davis fell through, Samuel Z. Arkoff and American-International Pictures took up the project.
The sequence in the barber shop where doomed gangster Mr. Grossfeld is getting his daily shave proved to be challenging to shoot. Director Larry Cohen instructed the real-life barber to accidentally nick the actor's face while shaving him, but no matter how many times he tried, the actor would not bleed.
Tommy's main sidearm is a 9mm Mauser C96 "Red 9" pistol.
The name Caesar is never spoken in the movie.
"Reverend Rufus: Mama! Does Tommy know you're here? Mama Gibbs: Pray for him, Rufus... you were always a good boy, pray for him. Reverend Rufus: Okay Mama, we'll pray for him."
"Tommy Gibbs: You can sleep until noon, if you want anything, just press a button. Mama Gibbs: Me? Live in this apartment? Why they'd hang me right off that terrace, Jew folks ain't even allowed here."
