The Cotton Club Poster

The Cotton Club (1984)

R 12/14/1984 Crime, Drama 2h 9m
65%
User
Score
6.6/10
76%
68/100

It was the jazz age. It was an era of elegance and violence. The action was gambling. The stakes were life and death.

Overview

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

Francis Ford Coppola

Director

William Kennedy

Screenplay

Mario Puzo

Story

Top Billed Cast

Richard Gere

Richard Gere

Richard 'Dixie' Dwyer

Gregory Hines

Gregory Hines

Delbert 'Sandman' Williams

Diane Lane

Diane Lane

Vera Cicero

Lonette McKee

Lonette McKee

Lila Rose Oliver

Bob Hoskins

Bob Hoskins

Owney Madden

James Remar

James Remar

Dutch Schultz

Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage

Vincent Dwyer

Allen Garfield

Allen Garfield

Otto 'Abbadabba' Berman

Fred Gwynne

Fred Gwynne

Frenchy Demange

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Media

The Cotton Club Encore (1984)

The Cotton Club Encore (1984)

The Cotton Club Trailer

The Cotton Club Trailer

The Cotton Club 1984 TV trailer

The Cotton Club 1984 TV trailer

The Cotton Club Official Trailer #1 - Nicolas Cage Movie (1984) HD

The Cotton Club Official Trailer #1 - Nicolas Cage Movie (1984) HD

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written on April 27, 2015

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 an...

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