Tema: Film
Tip: Plakat

68 x 48 cm
2 x presavijen

The Cotton Club is a 1984 American crime drama film co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The story centers on a Harlem jazz club in the 1930s, the Cotton Club and stars Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, and Lonette McKee. The supporting cast included Bob Hoskins, James Remar, Nicolas Cage, Allen Garfield, Laurence Fishburne, Gwen Verdon and Fred Gwynne.

The film was noted for its over-budget production costs, and took a total of five years to make.

Despite being a disappointment at the box-office, the film received generally positive reviews. It was nominated for several awards, including Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Picture (Drama) and Oscars for Best Art Direction (Richard Sylbert, George Gaines) and Best Film Editing.

A musician named Dixie Dwyer begins working with mobsters to advance his career but falls in love with the girlfriend of gangland kingpin Dutch Schultz.

A dancer from Dixie`s neighborhood, Sandman Williams, is hired with his brother by The Cotton Club, a jazz club where most of the performers are black and the customers are white. Owney Madden, a mobster, owns the club and runs it with his right-hand man, Frenchy.

Dixie becomes a Hollywood film star, thanks to the help of Madden and the mob but angering Schultz. He also continues to see Schultz`s gun moll, Vera Cicero, whose new nightclub has been financed by the jealous gangster.

In the meantime, Dixie`s ambitious younger brother Vincent becomes a gangster in Schultz`s mob and eventually a public enemy, holding Frenchy as a hostage.

Sandman alienates his brother Clay at The Cotton Club by agreeing to perform a solo number there. While the club`s management interferes with Sandman`s romantic interest in Lila, a singer, its cruel treatment of the performers leads to an intervention by Harlem criminal `Bumpy` Rhodes on their behalf.

Dutch Schultz is violently dealt with by Madden`s men while Dixie and Sandman perform on The Cotton Club`s stage.