The Cotton Club

Dec 14, 1984

2h 10m

★ 6.5

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.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Totally Independent

PSO

American Zoetrope

Robert Evans Productions

The Cotton Club Trailers

Cast

Richard 'Dixie' Dwyer

Richard Gere

Delbert 'Sandman' Williams

Gregory Hines

Vera Cicero

Diane Lane

Lila Rose Oliver

Lonette McKee

Owney Madden

Bob Hoskins

Dutch Schultz

James Remar

Vincent Dwyer

Nicolas Cage

Otto 'Abbadabba' Berman

Allen Garfield

Frenchy Demange

Fred Gwynne

Tish Dwyer

Gwen Verdon

Frances Flegenheimer

Lisa Jane Persky

Clay Williams

Maurice Hines

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