The Cotton Club

The Cotton Club (1984)

65%
432votes
2popularity
130min

"Where deals were made, lives were traded and the legends of jazz lit up the night."
Budget:$58,000,000
Revenue:$25,928,721
Release:12/14/1984
Genres:Crime | Drama
Original language:English
Spoken languages:English | Italian
Countries:United States of America

Overview:

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.… Expand

Production companies:

Totally Independent
PSO
United States of America
American Zoetrope
United States of America
Robert Evans Productions
United States of America

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The Cotton Club Encore (1984)
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The Cotton Club Trailer
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The Cotton Club 1984 TV trailer
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The Cotton Club Official Trailer #1 - Nicolas Cage Movie (1984) HD
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75%
John Chard
- Created:4/27/2015
- Updated:5/16/2024
And all - that - jazz! Far better than its iffy reputation suggests, The Cotton Club is guilty of being stuffed to the gills, but it also contains mighty fine film making that shows craft both behind and in front of the camera. Set in late 1920s Harlem, the pitch is an area of New York rife with swinging jazz, racism, crooks and gangsters. Prohibition and the depression fill the air just as the talkie movie bursts out of the silver screen. The Cotton Club of the title is the focal point for many of the key character's lives, so Francis Coppola, who stepped in at the eleventh hour of the troubled production, has many threads to juggle. He drops the odd one, but never to the detriment of the verve and swagger of the pic. Violence comes and goes, song and dance often dazzles the eyes and ears, and a cast of hundreds induces that good old game of spot the stars - past, present and future. The narrative has strength via the observations of a major part of America in great transition, with the art design ops and tech crew beavers aiding him considerably via some superb period flavourings There is no getting away from the slightness of some character strands, the director and co choosing to insert another, all be it delightful, dance or song number to fill the void, but the core of the story remains strong throughout. The underworld always looms large, the seedy side of the era pulses away continuously, while the cast enjoy the dressage and frontage of a key time in America's history. Flaws for sure but made with skill and passion and it never bores. Bravo! 7.5/10… Expand

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