A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.

Mickey Rourke
as Harry Angel

Robert De Niro
as Louis Cyphre

Lisa Bonet
as Epiphany Proudfoot

Charlotte Rampling
as Margaret Krusemark

Stocker Fontelieu
as Ethan Krusemark

Brownie McGhee
as Toots Sweet

Michael Higgins
as Doctor Fowler

Elizabeth Whitcraft
as Connie

Eliott Keener
as Sterne

Charles Gordone
as Spider Simpson
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"Harry Angel" (Mickey O'Rourke) lives a pretty hand-to-mouth existence as a New York PI when he is hired to track down a musician named "Johnny Favorite". Now this fella really doesn't want to be found, and after a while our street-smart investigator begins to contemplate that maybe this search isn'...