The Cool World (film)
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Release date April 20, 1964 (1964-04-20) Cast Rony Clanton (Duke (as Hampton Clanton)), (Priest), Yolanda RodrÃguez (Luanne), (Blood (as Clarence Williams))Similar movies Collateral , Django Unchained , Straight Outta Compton , We're the Millers , Full Metal Jacket , District 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The cool world 1963
The Cool World is a 1963 feature film directed by Shirley Clarke about African-American life in the Royal Pythons, a youth gang in Harlem. In 1994, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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- Soundtrack
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Cast and crew
The Cool World stars real Harlem youth, and some real gang members:
Original music by Mal Waldron and cinematography by Baird Bryant
Production background
This semi-documentary style movie was produced by soon-to-be documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, directed by Shirley Clarke, and adapted by Clarke and Carl Lee from the 1959 novel The Cool World by Warren Miller.
A play, written by Miller and Robert Rossen based on the novel, was first shown in Philadelphia and then twice at Broadway's Eugene O'Neill Theatre on February 22 and 23, 1960, featuring Raymond St. Jacques, James Earl Jones, Calvin Lockhart, Hilda Simms, and others. The film helped launch Antonio Fargas, Clarence Williams III, Carl Lee, and Gloria Foster, who married Williams three years later.
Soundtrack
The film's soundtrack was performed by Dizzy Gillespie and his quintet, subsequently released as an album under the same title in 1964.
References
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