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Programme Information

In 1920s New York, gangsters rub shoulders with celebrities at Harlem's Cotton Club. A jazz musician falls for a mobster's moll and a black dancer pursues a mixed race chorus girl, but racial and legal divides keep them apart.

Keywords:

Crime, Drama, Music, Gangster, Movie, Film, Movies, Films

Additional Information:

(1984) (USA) (3 Star)

Cast:

Richard Gere	.... Michael 'Dixie' Dwyer
Gregory Hines	.... Sandman Williams
Diane Lane	.... Vera Cicero
Lonette McKee	.... Lila Rose Oliver
Bob Hoskins	.... Owney Madden
James Remar	.... Dutch Schultz

Supporting Cast:

Nicolas Cage	.... Vincent Dwyer
Allen Garfield	.... Abbadabba Berman
Fred Gwynne	.... Frenchy Demange
Gwen Verdon	.... Tish Dwyer
Lisa Jane Persky	.... Frances Flegenheimer
Maurice Hines	.... Clay Williams
Julian Beck	.... Sol Weinstein
Novella Nelson	.... Madame St. Clair
Laurence Fishburne	.... Bumpy Rhodes

Directors:

Francis Ford Coppola

Writers:

William Kennedy
Francis Ford Coppola