Should you watch Godfather of Harlem?
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Godfather of Harlem
Series · 2019
Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of Harlem.
The sides of Godfather of Harlem
- Bumpy Johnson back from prison
- Harlem in the early 1960s
- A war with the Italian mob
Godfather of Harlem is good for you if…
- you like a crime boss taking back his streets from the mob.
- you like Harlem in the sixties, with Malcolm X and the civil rights movement.
- you like Forest Whitaker as a calm and ruthless boss.
Godfather of Harlem is bad for you if…
- you can't stand gangland killings.
- you want true crime told strictly as it happened.
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