King of New York

King of New York (1990)

A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to the city's poor in this stylish and ultraviolent modern twist on Robin Hood.

Keywords: african-american, aids, airplane, ak-47, alleyway, ambulance, american-flag, anti-hero, applause, arrest

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Frank White: From now on, nothing goes down unless I'm involved. No blackjack no dope deals, no nothing. A nickel bag gets sold in the park, I want in. You guys got fat while everybody starved on the street. Now it's my turn.

Frank White: I'm not your problem. I'm a business man.

Frank White: You think ambushing me in some nightclub's gonna stop what makes people take drugs? This country spends $100 billion a year on getting high, and it's not because of me. All that time I was wasting in jail, it just got worse. I'm not your problem. I'm just a businessman.

Jump: Yo, congratulations, Frank. Congratulations, man. Them Columbian motherfuckers, they took permanent vacation in hell, if you know what I mean.::Frank White: Well, I must've been away too long because my feelings are dead. I feel no remorse.

Joey Dalesio: I've got a message from Frank White. He wants to sit down, he wants to talk.::Arty Clay: You tell him I don't talk to nigger lovers.::Joey Dalesio: Well, he says he's got things on his mind that he wants to discuss with you, and he wants to know where and he wants to know when.::Arty Clay: You tell him in fucking Hell, that's where. He's gonna wish his lawyer left him fucking those Sambos in the joint when I get through with him.

Jump: I wanna know who I'm selling drugs to, you know what I mean?::Joey Dalesio: You don't sell drugs, my brother. You shoot people.::Jump: Yo, I'm unemployed. Ain't nobody left.

Dennis Gilley: I heard a rumor about you.::Frank White: What's that?::Dennis Gilley: I heard you got AIDS getting dicked up your ass in prison. That's what I heard.::Frank White: I thought about you every time I jerked off, dickhead.

Frank White: When the D.A's office investigated the sudden death of Arty Clay, they found that he left a $13 million estate. How do you explain that? There there's Larry Wong, who owned half of Chinatown when he passed away. Larry used to rent his tenements to Asian refuges, his own people, for $800 a month to share a single toilet on the same floor. How 'bout King Tito? He had thirteen-year-old girls hooking for him on the street. Those guys are dead because I don't want to make money that way. Emil Zappa, the Mata brothers, they're dead because they were running this city into the ground.::Roy Bishop: You expected to get away with killing all these people?::Frank White: I spent half my life in prison. I never got away with anything, and I never killed anybody that didn't deserve it.::Roy Bishop: Who made you judge and jury?::Frank White: Well, it's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it.

Frank White: There are some things I don't do.

Frank White: How come you never came to see me?::Jump: Who wanted to see you in a cage, man?

'King of New York' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

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