Cotton Club
Trama
Alla fine degli anni Venti, il Cotton Club è il più famoso locale di New York. Vi si esibiscono cantanti e ballerini negri ma solo ai bianchi è riservato l'accesso. In occasione di un attentato a un boss (Schultz, l'olandese), presente nel locale, un giovane bianco suonatore di cornetta, Dixie, gli salva la vita. Schultz, per sdebitarsi, lo fa assumere al Cotton Club gestito da un altro "boss" (Owney Madden) e lo incarica di fare l'accompagnatore della sua amante Vera Cicero. Dixie e Vera piano piano si innamorano, ma l'ombra dell'olandese incombe.
(1984) Crime , Dramma
Data rilascio : 14/12/1984
regia di Francis Ford Coppola
Budget : 58.000.000,00 $
Incasso : 25.928.721,00 $
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
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
John P. Ryan - Joe Flynn
Tom Waits - Irving Stark
Ron Karabatsos - Mike Best
Glenn Withrow - Ed Popke
Jennifer Grey - Patsy Dwyer
Wynonna Smith - Winnie Williams
Thelma Carpenter - Norma Williams
Charles 'Honi' Coles - Suger Coates
Larry Marshall - Cab Calloway
Joe Dallesandro - Charles 'Lucky' Luciano
Diane Venora - Gloria Swanson
Tucker Smallwood - Kid Griffin
Marc Coppola - Ted Husing
Robert Earl Jones - Stage Door Joe
Sofia Coppola - Child in Street
Tracey Ross - Dancer
Mario Van Peebles - Dancer
Ed O'Ross - Monk
Frederick Downs Jr. - Sullen Man
Woody Strode - Holmes
Bill Graham - J.W.
Dayton Allen - Solly
Kim Chan - Ling
Ed Rowan - Messiah
Leonard Termo - Danny
Brian Tarantina - Vince Hood
Bruce MacVittie - Vince Hood
James Russo - Vince Hood
Giancarlo Esposito - Bumpy Hood
Rony Clanton - Caspar Holstein
Damien Leake - Bub Jewett
Bill Cobbs - Big Joe Ison
Joe Lynn - Marcial Flores
Oscar Barnes - Spanish Henry
Ed Zang - Hotel Clerk
Sandra Beall - Myrtle Fay
Zane Mark - Duke Ellington
Paul Herman - Policeman #1
Randle Mell - Policeman #2
Gregory Rozakis - Charlie Chaplin
Vincent Jerman-Jerosa - James Cagney
Rosalind Harris - Fanny Brice
Jackée Harry - Dancer
Sonya Hensley - Dancer
Valarie Pettiford - Dancer
Kimberly Dorsey - Joan Blondell (uncredited)
Anton Evangelista - Ownie Hood (uncredited)
Nicholas J. Giangiulio - Screen Test Thug (uncredited)
Suzanne Kaaren - The Duchess of Park Avenue (uncredited)
Robin Karfo - Vera's Sidekick / Banville Club (uncredited)
Mark Margolis - Charlie Workman (uncredited)
Naylon Mitchell - Busboy (uncredited)
Ray Negron - Waiter (uncredited)
Kirk Taylor - Cotton Club Waiter (uncredited)
Rick Washburn - Hitman (uncredited)
Linda Gillen - voice (uncredited)