“The Cotton Club” is a Crime Drama, Screenplay by Mario Puzo, William Kennedy and Francis Ford Coppola and Directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
The movie is centred around The Cotton Club
in the late 1920s and early 30s Harlem, it’s a premium night club owned by Owney Madden (Bob Hoskins) and
Frenchy Demange (Fred Gwynne),
Featuring the very best jazz musicians,
singers and dancers and is frequented by the great and the good and the very not
so good of the underworld.
A musician named Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere) begins working with mobsters
to advance his career but falls in love with Vera Cicero (Diane Lane) the
girlfriend of gangland kingpin Dutch Schultz (James Remar).
The film benefits from a fine and varied
supporting cast including, Gregory Hines, Lonette McKee, Nicolas Cage, Allen Garfield, Laurence Fishburne
and Maurice Hines.
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