The Cotton Club

"It was the jazz age. It was an era of elegance and violence. The action was gambling. The stakes were life and death."

Dec 14 1984 R 2h 7m
Crime, Drama, Music

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

Plot

The Cotton Club was a famous Harlem nightclub. This is the story of the people who visited this club as well as the people who ran it, and the film is generously peppered with the jazz music that made the Cotton Club so renowned in the 1920s and 1930s.

Written by

William Kennedy, Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo

Directed by

Francis Ford Coppola

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

PSO, Totally Independent, Orion Pictures

Languages

Italiano, English

Awards

Nominated for 2 Oscars. 1 win & 8 nominations total

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