Musical drama set in 1928 that pays a visually striking tribute to the Prohibition era. Jazz musician Dixie Dwyer saves a gangster’s life and gets sucked into the mobster’s world of bootleg liquor, racketeering and escalating violence, centred round the eponymous Harlem nightclub., A musician works with mobsters to advance his career but falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangland kingpin., A visually striking tribute to the Prohibition era. Jazz musician Dixie Dwyer saves a gangster’s life and gets sucked into the mobster’s world of bootleg liquor, racketeering and escalating violence. As Dwyer, Richard Gere played his own cornet solos., In 1920s New York, gangsters rub shoulders with celebrities at Harlem’s Cotton Club. A jazz musician falls for a mobster’s moll and a black dancer pursues a mixed race chorus girl, but racial and legal divides keep them apart., A cornet player at a legendary 1920s-era Harlem nightspot gets caught in the orbit of a notorious gangster and his teenaged mistress., There are those who insist that the backstage intrigues which occurred during the production of Cotton Club would make a better film than Cotton Club itself. Essentially, this “dream” project of director Francis Ford Coppola was intended to reflect the passing parade of New York in the 1930s, using Harlem’s famed Cotton Club nitery as a metaphor of the era. After innumerable in-progress script changes were made and countless post-production “improvements” were imposed, what emerged was a crazy quilt of varying styles, divergent acting techniques and stop-and-start plotlines. Occasionally, Cotton Club is well up to the standards established by Coppola in his earlier, more successful films. The central character, loosely based on George Raft and played by Richard Gere, is a jazz cornet player at the Cotton Club. Gere saves the life of gangster Dutch Schultz (James Remar), who in gratitude takes Gere under his wing, engaging the young man’s services as escort for Schultz’s girl friend Diane Lane (guess where this leads?) Meanwhile, Gere’s overambitious hoodlum brother Nicolas Cage (playing a character inspired by mobster Mad Dog Coll) kills two innocent children during a mob hit and is forced to go into hiding. Cage holds gangster Frenchy Demarge (Fred Gwynne) as a hostage, but Demarge’s safety is negotiated by Owney Madden (Bob Hoskins), the mob owner of the Cotton Club (the touching friendship between Demarge and Madden is one of the few subplots to remain intact in the film’s release version). Cage is killed, followed in death shortly afterward by Schultz, who is put “on the spot” by Lucky Luciano (Joe Dallesandro). Gere wins a Hollywood movie contract and heads off to Tinseltown with Diane Lane. These plot convolutions tend to diminish the importance of the black characters who work as Cotton Club entertainers. The intriguing fact that blacks were permitted to perform at the club but were denied access as patrons should have been given as much emphasis as Richard Gere’s story; instead, we are left with tantalizingly brief snatches of a romance between Gregory Hines and Lonette McKee, and a few scattered musical numbers involving Hines, his brother Maurice, Charles “Honi” Coles, and a staggeringly good Cab Calloway imitator (Larry T. Marshall). Cotton Club tends to leave the viewer feeling as though several vital ingredients are missing from the recipe, but there is still a lot left over to please the ear and eye., Richard Gere stars in this crime-drama based on the famous Harlem night club. A musician works with mobsters to advance his career but falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangland kingpin., Richard Gere and Bob Hoskins star in Francis Ford Coppola’s panorama of love, crime and entertainment in this stylish gangster film, centred on the legendary Harlem Nightclub. (1984)
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “The Cotton Club ” ?
A: The main cast includes Richard Gere,Gregory Hines,Diane Lane,Lonette McKee,James Remar,Nicolas Cage,Allen Garfield,Bob Hoskins,Fred Gwynne,Gwen Verdon,Lisa Jane Persky,Maurice Hines,Julian Beck,Novella Nelson,Laurence Fishburne,John P. Ryan,Tom Waits,Ron Karabatsos,Glen Witherow,Jennifer Grey,Wynonna Smith,Thelma Carpenter,Charles ‘Honi’ Coles,Larry Marshall,Joe Dallesandro,Ed O’Ross,Frederic Downs Jr.,Diane Venora,Glenn Withrow,Tucker Smallwood,Woody Strode,Bill Graham,Kim Chan,Ed Rowan,Leonard Termo,Rony Clanton,Damien Leake,Dayton Allen,Bill Cobbs,Joe Lynn,Sandra Beall,Zane Mark,Tom Signorelli,Steve Vignari,Susan Meschner,Gregory Rozakis,Marc Coppola,Norma Jean Darden,Robert Earl Jones,Vincent Jerosa,Rosalind Harris,Bruce MacVittie,Brian Tarantina,George Cantero,James Russo,Giancarlo Esposito,Bruce Hubbard,Ed Zang,Susan Mechsner,Paul Herman,Randle Mell,Ralph Brown,Sarita Allen,Tracey Bass,Jacquelyn Bird,Carla Earle,Wendy Edmead,Sonya Hensley,Mario Van Peebles,Jordan Derwin,Sylvio Tabet,Milena Canonero,Robert Q. Lovett,Connie Brink,Michael Meacham,Barry Malkin,Arthur Mitchell,Henry LeTang,David Chapman,Claudia Asbury,Les Bloom,Mario Puzo,David Carroll,Stephen Goldblatt,Dyson Lovell,Fred Roos,Melissa Prophet,Richard Dean,Gregory Bolton,Gregory Hines,Michael Meachum,Michael Smuin,Judianna Makovsky,Richard Sylbert,William Kennedy,George Faison,Francis Ford Coppola,George Gaines,Edward Beyer,Jack Jacobsen.
Q: When Did the “The Cotton Club” Released?
A: The Movie “The Cotton Club” originally aired on 1984-12-10 and released in the year of 1984.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “The Cotton Club” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “The Cotton Club” ?
A: “The Cotton Club” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
