Product Review

The Guy from Harlem is the first blaxploitation film we ve ever riffed. Why? To quote the temperamental yet ultimately quite sensitive gangster Harry De Bauld, a character you will grow to love as much as we do - well, it s...it s kinda personal. Okay it s not actually personal at all, it s just that the movie is really, really funny. It trades most of the sleaze, grime, and, well, exploitation that you expect from the genre for dopiness, sexual situations that fail to lead to actual sex, a clumsy confused sweetness, and more botched lines per minute than anything we ve ever seen. As you d expect from the title, The Guy from Harlem is set entirely in Miami. It s the story of private eye and titular Guy, Al Connors. Al s a man with such a reputation that when it s time to protect an African queen/princess/wife of a chief of state (her title changes pretty much every time it comes up) the CIA goes straight to his dingy shag-carpeted office and begs for help. Later, when gangster Harry De Bauld s daughter is kidnapped, where do you think he goes? That s right. To the guy who s the best at being from Harlem there is, baby. Join Mike (what you say?), Kevin (that cat s a bad duuuude), and Bill (get on down!) for The Guy from Harlem!