Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.
- gangster
- mobster
- 1930s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Laurence Fishburne
Bumpy Johnson
Tim Roth
Dutch Schultz
Vanessa Williams
Francine Hughes
Andy Garcia
Lucky Luciano
- Cicely Tyson — Stephanie St. Clair
- Chi McBride — Illinois Gordon
- Clarence Williams III — Bub Hewlett
- Richard Bradford — Captain Foley
- William Atherton — Thomas E. Dewey
- Loretta Devine — Pigfoot Mary
- Queen Latifah — Sulie
- Mike Starr — Albert Salke
- Beau Starr — Jules Salke
- Paul Benjamin — Whispers
- Joe Guzaldo — Bo Weinberg
- Directed
- Bill Duke
- Written
- Chris Brancato
Production
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 261 ratings
- Studio
- United Artists, Frank Mancuso Jr. Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
