The Cotton Club
The Cotton Club is a 1984 American musical crime drama film co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on James Haskins' 1977 book of the same name. The story centers on the Cotton Club, a 1930s Harlem jazz club. The film stars Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, and Lonette McKee, with Bob Hoskins, James Remar, Nicolas Cage, Allen Garfield, Gwen Verdon, Fred Gwynne and Laurence Fishburne in supporting roles.
Plot
A musician named Dixie Dwyer begins working with mobsters to advance his career but falls in love with Vera Cicero, the girlfriend of gangland kingpin Dutch Schultz.
More details
| author | William Kennedy |
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| director | Francis Ford Coppola |
| editor | Barry Malkin Robert Q. Lovett |
| genre | crime drama |
| keywords | crime boss dutch schultz film star gun moll jazz club kingpin mobster owney madden public enemy |
| musicBy | John Barry |
| producer | Robert Evans |
| productionCompany | American Zoetrope Producers Sales Organization |
| publisher | Orion Pictures |
| theme | musical race and ethnicity |