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Suggested by James Haskins' pictorial history The Cotton Club
In 1928 New York, spirits are high and jazz, dancing and gangsters rule supreme. Harlem's Cotton Club is in the center of it all, where rich upper-eastsiders mix with dressed-up mobsters. On stage is gifted coronet player Dixie Dwyer, who dreams of the big time, and tap sensation Sandman Williams who can't touch his girl, the lovely singer Lila Rose Oliver, because of strict club rules. As tension rises, so do tempers, and the nightclub becomes a pressure-cooker of jilted loves and mob jobs
Story by William Kennedy & Francis Coppola and Mario Puzo
Originally released as a motion picture in 1984
Director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt ; edited by Barry Malkin & Robert Q. Lovett ; original music, John Barry
Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee, Bob Hoskins, Nicolas Cage, Fred Gwynne
Rated R
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Language tracks: English, French; subtitles: French, Spanish