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
Dann Florek
as Winesnap
Kathleen Wilhoite
as Nurse