Where deals were made, lives were traded and the legends of jazz lit up the night.
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
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Nostalgic, grave, classical in form and meticulous.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- earnestironic
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- John Chardon TMDB · Apr 20157.5/10
And all - that - jazz! Far better than its iffy reputation suggests, The Cotton Club is guilty of being stuffed to the gills, but it also contains mighty fine film making that shows craft both behind and in front of the camera. Set in late 1920s Harlem, the pitch is an area of New York rife with swinging jazz, racism, crooks and gangsters. Prohibition and the depression fill the air just as the talkie movie bursts out of the silver screen. The Cotton Club of the title is the focal point for many of the key character's lives, so Francis Coppola, who stepped in at the eleventh hour of the troubled production, has many threads to juggle. He drops the odd one, but never to the detriment of the verve and swagger of the pic. Violence comes and goes, song and dance often dazzles the eyes and ears, and a cast of hundreds induces that good old game of spot the stars - past, present and future. The narrative has strength via the observations of a major part of America in great transition, with the art design ops and tech crew beavers aiding him considerably via some superb period flavourings There is no getting away from the slightness of some character strands, the director and co choosing
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Cast
- Richard GereRichard 'Dixie' Dwyer
- Gregory HinesDelbert 'Sandman' Williams
- Diane LaneVera Cicero
- Lonette McKeeLila Rose Oliver
- Bob HoskinsOwney Madden
- James RemarDutch Schultz
- Nicolas CageVincent Dwyer
- Allen GarfieldOtto 'Abbadabba' Berman
- Fred GwynneFrenchy Demange
- Gwen VerdonTish Dwyer
Crew
- Francis Ford CoppolaDirector
- Francis Ford CoppolaScreenplay
- William KennedyScreenplay
- Stephen GoldblattDirector of Photography
- John BarryOriginal Music Composer
- Robert Q. LovettEditor
- Barry MalkinEditor
- Robert EvansProducer
- Francis Ford CoppolaProducer
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