Black Caesar

Tommy Gibbs (Fred Williamson) is an African-American who grew up in Harlem, New York City. As an adult, he joins New York mafia and becomes the head of a black crime syndicate in Harlem. He wages a gang war with the Italian mobsters and begins to establish a criminal empire. He meets and falls in love with a singer named Helen (Gloria Hendry) and marries her. Eventually his enemies conspire with her, leading to an attempt on his life that leaves him shot and wounded.