Original Gangstas
| Original Gangstas | |
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| Directed by | Larry Cohen |
| Written by | Aubrey K. Rattan |
| Produced by | Wolf Schmidt Fred Williamson |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Carlos González |
| Edited by | Peter B. Ellis David Kern |
| Music by | Vladimir Horunzhy |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Orion Pictures |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3.6 million |
| Box office | $4,000,000 (US) |
Original Gangstas is a 1996 action-gangster film filmed and set in urban Gary, Indiana starring Blaxploitation film stars such as Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Jim Brown, Richard Roundtree, and Ron O'Neal. It is the final film directed by Larry Cohen before his death in 2019, though he continued to write screenplays through 2010.
The film details the deteriorating state of an impoverished Gary neighborhood terrorized by a street gang called the Rebels. When the gang murders a local boy, it prompts the emergence of several individuals who grew up in the neighborhood: the original members of the Rebels.