“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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