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Cotton Club [WS]

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Released: 2001-07-10

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Cotton Club [WS] DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Dayton Allen, Tracey Bass, Sandra Beall, Thelma Carpenter, Kim Chan, Rony Clanton, Bill Cobbs, Nick Corri, Joe Dallesandro, Jordan Derwin, Wendy Edmead, Giancarlo Esposito, Laurence Fishburne, Ralph Brown, Nicholas J. Giangiulio, Jennifer Grey, Rosalind Harris, Sonia Hensley, Paul Herman, Robert Earl Jones, Ron Karabatsos, Damien Leake, Bruce MacVittie, Zane Mark, Susan Mechsner, Randle Mell, Ed O'Ross, Mario Van Peebles, Brian Tarantina, Leonard Termo, Diane Venora, Gwen Verdon, Glenn Withrow, Ed Zang, Bill Graham, Henry Le Tang, Marc Coppola, Sarita Allen, Jacquelyn Bird, Carla Earle, Joe Lynn, Steve Vignari, Bruce Howard, George Cantero, Vincent Jerosa, Ed Rowan, Christopher Lewis, Gregory Rozakis, James Russo, John Ryan, Tom Signorelli, Tucker Smallwood, Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee, Bob Hoskins, James Remar, Nicolas Cage, Allen Garfield, Fred Gwynne, Lisa Jane Persky, Maurice Hines, Julian Beck, Novella Nelson, Tom Waits, Wynonna Smith, Charles "Honi" Col

Director(s): Francis Ford Coppola

Features:
New Digital Transfer
Deleted scenes
Original theatrical trailer

Cotton Club [WS] DVD Details

Video:
Theatre Wide-Screen
Audio:
5 full-range channels. Includes 3 for the front speakers, 2 surround channels for rear speakers, & 1 low-frequency effects (LFE) channel to carry deep bass effects
PCM mono
Language:
English
French
Subtitles:
French, Spanish

Running Time: 129
Genre: Drama
Item Weight: 1
UPC: 027616864369
Product Code: MGMV1002205DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1984
Studio: Mgm (video & Dvd)

Cotton Club [WS] DVD Summary Combining electric song and dance performances with drama (both on and off screen), Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984) looks back to the 1920s-1930s peak of the legendary Harlem nightclub where only blacks performed and only whites could sit in the audience.

Mixing historical figures with characters loosely based on actual people, Coppola and co-writers William Kennedy and The Godfather's Mario Puzo create a panorama of love, crime, and entertainment centered on the Club.

Among them are cornet player Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere, playing his own solos), who escapes psycho gangster "benefactor" Dutch Schultz (James Remar) for a George Raft-type Hollywood career as a gangster film star; Schultz's nubile mistress Vera Cicero (Diane Lane), who loves Dixie against her mercenary instincts; Cotton Club Mob owner Owney Madden (Bob Hoskins) and close associate Frenchy Demarge (Fred Gwynne); Vincent (Nicolas Cage), Dixie's no-good Mad Dog Coll-esque brother; Club tap star Sandman Williams (Gregory Hines), who woos ambitious light-skinned Club singer Lila Rose Oliver (Lonette McKee); and cameos by Charles "Honi" Coles and Cab Calloway impersonator Larry Marshall.

Complementing the period story, Coppola evokes the style of '30s gangster movies and musicals through an array of old-fashioned devices like montages of headlines, songs and shoot-outs.

Conceived by producer Robert Evans as his crowning achievement and directorial debut, Evans had to hand over the troubled production to Coppola, but the budget spiraled out of control as the script was repeatedly re-written throughout the chaotic shoot.

By the time it was released, The Cotton Club's epic production story of power struggles, financial bloat, and even a murder overshadowed the "reunion" of The Godfather's creative team.

Neither a Heaven's Gate-sized failure nor a wallet-saving hit like Coppola's Apocalypse Now, The Cotton Club got some favorable critical notices (although it drew fire for subordinating the African American stories).

It did not, however, find a large enough audience to justify its expense and controversy, becoming another mark against 1970s "auteur" cinema in increasingly blockbuster-driven 1980s Hollywood.