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14/12/1984 Crime, Drama 2h 10m
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Where deals were made, lives were traded and the legends of jazz lit up the night.

Overview

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.

  1. Francis Ford Coppola

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Richard Gere

    Richard 'Dixie' Dwyer

  2. Gregory Hines

    Delbert 'Sandman' Williams

  3. Diane Lane

    Vera Cicero

  4. Lonette McKee

    Lila Rose Oliver

  5. Bob Hoskins

    Owney Madden

  6. James Remar

    Dutch Schultz

  7. Nicolas Cage

    Vincent Dwyer

  8. Allen Garfield

    Otto 'Abbadabba' Berman

  9. Fred Gwynne

    Frenchy Demange

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2015-04-27
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 ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$58,000,000.00

Revenue
$25,928,721.00

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