Tuesday, 3 August 2021

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – THE COTTON CLUB (1984)

 

“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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