Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are two black cops with a reputation for breaking the odd head. Both are annoyed at the success of the Reverend Deke O'Mailey who is selling trips back to Africa to the poor on the installment plan. When his truck is hijacked and a bale of cotton stuffed with money is lost in the chase, Harlem is turned upside down by Gravedigger and Coffin Ed, the Reverend, and the hijackers. Much of the humor is urban black, which was unusual in 1970. Written by John...

LAPD lieutenant Mike Harrigan ( Danny Glover ) and his cocky detective partner Jerry Lambert ( Bill Paxton ) soon realize that what seemed a bloody feud between voodoo high priest King Willie's ( Calvin Lockhart ) Jamaican gangs and Ramon Vega's ( Corey Rand ) Colombian drug gang is actually the work of a scary third party. Peter Keyes's ( Gary Busey ) federal team shields the crime scene even for the LAPD, but after forensics proves it must be an alien, who keeps making victims, the chase...

It is the 21st birthday of Prince Akeem of Zamunda and he is to marry a woman he never saw before. Now the prince breaks with tradition and travels to America to look for the love of his life.