With the aroma of gumbo in the air and the sound of jazz drifting from dimly lit clubs, criminals and crooked cops mix and clash in the cutthroat streets of New Orleans
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Bucktown
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Machine
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A Tuba To Cuba
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A reality cop show films a police raid on a drug ring that goes awry and results in the massacre of 11 policemen. All of this gets taped by the cameraman who tries to sell the tape to the gangsters and gets killed for his efforts. Meanwhile the film commentator gets pursued by the cops, the gangsters, and some crooked FBI agents. All are after the film which he doesn't have.
New Orleans After Dark
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New Orleans
A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman, and others.
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Tamales and Gumbo
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Birth of the Blues
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Trouble the Water
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