| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD)(129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Series |
Contemporary classics.
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| Note |
Widescreen version. |
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Suggested by James Haskins' pictorial history The Cotton Club. |
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Story by William Kennedy & Francis Coppola and Mario Puzo. |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1984. |
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For specific features see interactive menu. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt ; edited by Barry Malkin & Robert Q. Lovett ; original music, John Barry. |
| Cast |
Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee, Bob Hoskins, Nicolas Cage, Fred Gwynne. |
| Summary |
In 1928 New York, spirits are high and jazz, dancing and gangsters rule supreme. Harlem's Cotton Club is in the center of it all, where rich upper-eastsiders mix with dressed-up mobsters. On stage is gifted coronet player Dixie Dwyer, who dreams of the big time, and tap sensation Sandman Williams who can't touch his girl, the lovely singer Lila Rose Oliver, because of strict club rules. As tension rises, so do tempers, and the nightclub becomes a pressure-cooker of jilted loves and mob jobs. |
| System Details |
DVD format. |
| Language |
Language tracks: English, French; subtitles: French, Spanish. |
| Subject |
Jazz -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Jazz musicians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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DVDs.
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| Genre |
Musical films.
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Gangster films.
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Feature films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Coppola, Francis Ford, 1939-
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Gere, Richard, 1949-
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Hines, Gregory.
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Lane, Diane.
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McKee, Lonette.
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| ISBN |
0792850254 |
| Music No. |
1002205 MGM Home Entertainment |
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