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Cotton Club

Originaltitel: The Cotton Club
  • 1984
  • 18
  • 2 Std. 9 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,6/10
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Cotton Club (1984)
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In den Roaring Twenties ist der Cotton Club in Harlem einer der gefragtesten, aber auch skandalträchtigsten Jazz-Clubs New Yorks. Gangster, Musiker, Polizei - die einen besuchen den Club, an... Alles lesenIn den Roaring Twenties ist der Cotton Club in Harlem einer der gefragtesten, aber auch skandalträchtigsten Jazz-Clubs New Yorks. Gangster, Musiker, Polizei - die einen besuchen den Club, andere wiederum möchten ihn am liebsten schließen.In den Roaring Twenties ist der Cotton Club in Harlem einer der gefragtesten, aber auch skandalträchtigsten Jazz-Clubs New Yorks. Gangster, Musiker, Polizei - die einen besuchen den Club, andere wiederum möchten ihn am liebsten schließen.

  • Regie
    • Francis Ford Coppola
  • Drehbuch
    • William Kennedy
    • Francis Ford Coppola
    • Mario Puzo
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Richard Gere
    • Gregory Hines
    • Diane Lane
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    6,6/10
    20.548
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Francis Ford Coppola
    • Drehbuch
      • William Kennedy
      • Francis Ford Coppola
      • Mario Puzo
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Richard Gere
      • Gregory Hines
      • Diane Lane
    • 115Benutzerrezensionen
    • 42Kritische Rezensionen
    • 68Metascore
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
    • Für 2 Oscars nominiert
      • 1 Gewinn & 9 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    Richard Gere
    Richard Gere
    • Dixie Dwyer
    Gregory Hines
    Gregory Hines
    • Sandman Williams
    Diane Lane
    Diane Lane
    • Vera Cicero
    Lonette McKee
    Lonette McKee
    • Lila Rose Oliver
    Bob Hoskins
    Bob Hoskins
    • Owney Madden
    James Remar
    James Remar
    • Dutch Schultz
    Nicolas Cage
    Nicolas Cage
    • Vincent Dwyer
    Allen Garfield
    Allen Garfield
    • Abbadabba Berman
    Fred Gwynne
    Fred Gwynne
    • Frenchy Demange
    Gwen Verdon
    Gwen Verdon
    • Tish Dwyer
    Lisa Jane Persky
    Lisa Jane Persky
    • Frances Flegenheimer
    Maurice Hines
    Maurice Hines
    • Clay Williams
    Julian Beck
    Julian Beck
    • Sol Weinstein
    Novella Nelson
    Novella Nelson
    • Madame St. Clair
    Laurence Fishburne
    Laurence Fishburne
    • Bumpy Rhodes
    • (as Larry Fishburne)
    John P. Ryan
    John P. Ryan
    • Joe Flynn
    • (as John Ryan)
    Tom Waits
    Tom Waits
    • Irving Stark
    Ron Karabatsos
    Ron Karabatsos
    • Mike Best
    • Regie
      • Francis Ford Coppola
    • Drehbuch
      • William Kennedy
      • Francis Ford Coppola
      • Mario Puzo
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    6marbleann

    OK Movie with too much going on and too messy

    I saw this movie when it first came out and I thought it was a mess. Now years later while I have the luxury of sitting in my house watching the various showings on cable, I like a better. Why because this movie is IMO 3 different movies going on at once. I Now I am able to concentrate on one aspect of the movie more then the whole.

    I will start with movie #1... The Cotton club, the nightclub where everything converges and what is the common denominator that brings ALL of the characters together. It is almost set up like a Plantation in Mississippi. The white gangster own the place and the black people work there and have no say about anything that goes on. Black people were not even able to go to the club as a customer. All of the women who worked there were light skin almost passing for white. In the movie they do show how the set up was but the place was no as large as it was in the movie and on a side bar. Larry Fishburn who plays a numbers runner (the same role he played in a later movie, Hoodlum) shows interest in a brown skin singer performer in the club and her mother is very upset because she is the first "dark skin" woman working at the club. I liked that they added that in. I know this because my neighbor use to play with Louis Armstrong that the women in question is in fact Louis Amstrongs future wife. A little tidbit. I like the music and the performances which took place in the club. To me this was the most enjoying part of the movie. I feel a movie just about the Club without all the other foolishness it would be very interesting in the right hands. Which brings me to movie 2

    THe gangsters or the white people. Owey Madden was a thug and a very nasty man. In this movie Bob Hoskin (who was very good) and Fred Gwynn who I loved played like they were Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble. In the right hands we would of seen the real Madden. Remember this is the man who kept black people out of his club. And did battle with other NY gangsters. Then we have Dutch Schultz. I wonder why we did not see more of Lucky Luciano because it was those 2 who were causing havoc in NYC during the 20's with Luciano winning. I think James Remer did the best portrayal of Schulz. Years later Tim Roth played him in the movie Hoodlum and he was good, but Remer was scarier. And according to all reports he was a psychopath. Then we have the George Raft(Dixie Dwyer) character played by Richard Gere If people are not familiar with the actor George Raft it was known he hung around the mob and had big time mob connections..who actually got him a job in movies. Richard Gere even mentions at one time that he use to be a dancer. I am sure that is reference and acknowledgment of George Raft, who was a dancer before he went to Hollywood. George Raft was actually a pretty good actor. Gere even looks like him. I feel that is the real reason they cast him in this movie. Look at this movie as Gere playing Raft and not playing Dixie Dwyer and the part works.

    The last movie is the Harlem story. The Larry Fishburne character was a real person. He was lifetime criminal who spent most of his life in jail. He was not the voice of righteousness we see in the movie or the movie Hoodlum. What was interesting was the scene when he and the woman who was running the numbers racket in Harlem were offered a deal. I like they put that in the movie, that was true. The woman who was the real boss of the numbers racket came from the West Indies and started the whole thing on her own. A very tough cookie who went to jail because she would not give in to the mob. The mob was politically connected and they put her in jail for a long time. I like the the Hines bothers in the movie. They were feuding in real life and this movie was a way they starting talking again. They actually showed that in the movie. ALso the Vonnetta McGee character was interesting. I am a very light skin black women who could pas for white. WhICH I WOULD NEVER DO. But I don't know about living back in the early part of the century. The scene when she and Sandman goes to the hotel and the clerk tries to deny them a room actually happened to me and a boyfriend of mine years ago. So that scene really hit me. I would of liked if they explored Harlem life more, but the movie had too much going on already.

    Nicholas Cage...nephew of Cappolla was good playing the violent brother of the Richard Gere character. I would like to have seen him in more parts like that instead of the garbage he has been wasting himself in the last few years. Diane Lane was the miscast. She was playing a real character too, but she came nowhere near the woman she was playing, Texas Guinon(I think that was her last name) A big boozy tough blonde. To me that is the major miscast of the movie. I like her though, but not in this movie. This is a movie I feel has to be seen around 5 times to get the whole feeling of it. A good movie but just too messy and too much.
    7NateWatchesCoolMovies

    Chaotic, fun look at the roaring twenties

    Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club is every bit as dazzling, chaotic and decadent as one might imagine the roaring twenties would have been. it's set in and revolves around the titular jazz club, conducting a boisterous, kaleidoscope study of the various dames, dapper gents, hoodlums, harlots and musicians who called it home. Among them are would be gangster Dixie Dwyer (a slick Richard Gere), Sandman Williams (Gregory Hines), a young Bumpy Johnson (Laurence Fishburne) and renowned psychopathic mobster Dutch Schultz (a ferocious James Remar). Coppola wisely ducks a routine plot line in favor of a helter skelter, raucous cascade of delirious partying, violence and steamy romance, a stylistic choice almost reminiscent of Robert Altman. Characters come and go, fight and feud, drink and dance and generally keep up the kind of manic energy and pizazz that only the 20's could sustain. The cast is positively stacked, so watch for appearances from Nicolas Case, Bob Hoskins, Diane Lane, John P. Ryan, James Russo, Fred Gwynne, Allen Garfield, Ed O Ross, Diane Venora, Woody Strode, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Cobbs, Sofia Coppola and singer Tom Waits as Irving Stark, the club's owner. It's a messily woven tapestry of crime and excess held together by brief encounters, hot blooded conflict and that ever present jazz music which fuels the characters along with the perpetual haze of booze and cigarette smoke. Good times.
    DPerson626

    My Kind Of Movie

    This is a great movie. I personally don't think the beautiful Diane Lane could be in a bad flick, she would make the worst one good. I was impressed with Richard Geres musical ability as he played his own coronet and sounded as good as anyone I've ever heard. The dancing was superb, the costumes beautiful and the plot authentic. It took me back to the great musicals of the forties and fifties. I was raised in the waning days of the era of this movie, the thirties, and I could almost hear my Dad talking about the evils of the big cities while we listened to the radio news of gangsters and shootouts. I would recommend this movie to anyone. I rate it 10/10.
    8bobsgrock

    The Broadway version of 'The Godfather.'

    The Cotton Club is a dazzling, complex film that attempts so much it would be almost impossible for nearly any director to pull it off. But Francis Ford Coppola is not any director, so The Cotton Club is not just any movie. Rather, it succeeds at practically all levels and is certainly a film worth coming back to again and again.

    Set in Harlem in the late 1920s, we are introduced to a group of Jazz Age-products, people who see themselves exactly as they are but all hope to go somewhere better. Two story lines occupy the plot; we get a good-looking young musician Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere) who gets involved in the mob after falling for one of the gangster's girlfriends (Diane Lane) and we get the story of a very talented black dancer (Gregory Hines) trying to prove his love to a half-black and half-white chorus girl who seems to struggle with her place in this more or less racist society. Almost every night, everyone gathers at The Cotton Club, one of the most famous clubs in the city and the blacks entertain while the whites drink and watch. But Coppola gives us a view from all angles so it doesn't feel as if we are missing anything important.

    One of the biggest achievements of this film is its staging of the dance sequences, which are to say the least quite exquisite. Filled with colorful costumes and some mind-boggling tap numbers, at times you may forget that this is also a gangster picture. Indeed, some scenes feel just like Coppola's The Godfather with its quick bursts of violence but also in its tone of sad, elegiac setting. People come and go and some regret the things they do, but the music lives on. The acting is also very strong as Gere and Lane are quite wonderful in their first of three films together. Both were very good-looking and they do bring out the best in each other. Two supporting actors that really do steal the show are Bob Hoskins and Fred Gwynne as a mob boss and his head bodyguard. They share a tenacity and ferociousness in their dealings, but also have one really terrific scene involving Gwynne coming to see Hoskins after being kidnapped. A young Nicolas Cage also shows here he had incredible potential.

    This Broadway version of the gangster film so familiar in Hollywood refreshes both genres as we see the similarities between the two. Indeed, many of the participators in the entertainment were also involved in the mob and Coppola shows how the two lives intertwine and bring a lot of trouble to everyone. This may seem as a strange mixing of genres and story lines for some people, but it is well worth the two hours. It is funny, sad, violent, poetic but also enormously entertaining and isn't that what the movies are all about? Coppola seems to think so.
    8Lechuguilla

    All That Jazz

    Part fictional and part non-fictional, this lavish two-hour Francis Ford Coppola film spotlights the Cotton Club, the legendary, real-life Harlem jazz nightclub that flourished in the Prohibition era of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Richard Gere plays Dixie Dwyer, a young musician who works for mobsters, in an effort to advance his career. Dwyer falls in love with Vera Cicero (Diane Lane), the girlfriend of gangster Dutch Schultz (James Remar). The Dwyer character is based loosely on real-life jazz trumpet player Bix Beiderbecke.

    Throughout the film, various gangsters and bootleggers interact, sometimes violently, but much of the action centers around the Cotton Club, an establishment owned in real-life by Owney Madden, played in the film by actor Bob Hoskins. Madden would bring in Black performers to entertain a Whites-only clientèle, a truly racist policy, and a major plot point in the film's story.

    The film's plot is somewhat muddled, the result of a less than stellar screenplay. And, as you would expect, the gangster characters are not terribly likable. But the film overcomes these script weaknesses with a captivating visual and musical style that is both tawdry and elegant. The corruption, the violence, and the implied sleaze are garish and tawdry to be sure. Yet, the Club's ambiance gushes with a certain elegance and glamour. It's a strange mix, but one that is entirely consistent with that era in U.S. history.

    The film gets points from me for its lush, period piece costumes and production design, and adroit lighting, as well as all those jazz numbers, both sultry and flashy. Gregory Hines together with brother Maurice Hines provide some snappy tap dancing, some of which is improvised. Interestingly, their grandmother really did perform at the Cotton Club during its heyday. Also of interest in the film, viewers get to watch towering Fred Gwynne, who plays Frenchy, the oh-so-serious assistant to Owney Madden; the two of them engage in some interesting dialogue.

    Although the script's story and characters are less than ideal, I enjoyed the film a lot, mostly as a result of the tawdry and elegant visual style combined with the lavish jazz numbers. If you're interested in gangster movies or the Prohibition era of American history, this film is a must-see.

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      When Francis Ford Coppola called up Bob Hoskins to offer him a part, the actor didn't believe it was really him. Coppola introduced himself, to which Hoskins replied, "Yeah, and this is Henry the fucking Eighth", and hung up.
    • Patzer
      During the montage song Ill Wind there is a shot of coins and bills being poured out. The dimes in the shot are Roosevelt dimes, not produced until 1946.
    • Zitate

      Vera: You've got about as much style as a bowl of turnips.

    • Crazy Credits
      In the original version, the opening credits were intercut with dancers performing "The Mooche." In the 2019 revision, the dancing is eliminated and the credits roll straight through, but have been joined with straight cuts rather than dissolves. Additionally, Coppola has changed his billing from "Francis Coppola" to "Francis Ford Coppola." Finally, restoration credits have been added after the end titles.
    • Alternative Versionen
      In 2019, Lionsgate released a director's cut running 139 minutes, titled "The Cotton Club Encore". This version gave more space to the Williams brothers and Lila Rose, restoring three full musical numbers and extending others, and trimming scenes with impersonations of 1920s celebrities.
    • Verbindungen
      Edited into Lonette McKee: Ill Wind (1984)
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      How Come You Love Me Like You Do?
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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 22. Februar 1985 (Westdeutschland)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Sprachen
      • Englisch
      • Italienisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • El Cotton Club. Centro de la mafia
    • Drehorte
      • Prospect Hall, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA(church, order given at bar, Hoofer's Club, ballroom proposal)
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      • Zoetrope Studios
      • Producers Sales Organization (PSO)
      • Totally Independent
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      • 58.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
    • Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
      • 25.928.721 $
    • Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
      • 2.903.603 $
      • 16. Dez. 1984
    • Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
      • 25.928.721 $
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