The Cotton Club

1984 6.5 (415 votes) 2h 9m

Genres

Crime Drama

Production Companies

Totally Independent
PSO
American Zoetrope
Robert Evans Company

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

Overview

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

Key Crew

Producer: Robert Evans, Francis Ford Coppola

Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola, William Kennedy

Director of Photography: Stephen Goldblatt

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Story: Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, William Kennedy

Top Cast

Richard Gere

Richard 'Dixie' Dwyer

Gregory Hines

Delbert 'Sandman' Williams

Diane Lane

Vera Cicero

Lonette McKee

Lila Rose Oliver

Bob Hoskins

Owney Madden

James Remar

Dutch Schultz

Nicolas Cage

Vincent Dwyer

Allen Garfield

Otto 'Abbadabba' Berman

Videos

The Cotton Club Encore (1984)

The Cotton Club Trailer

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