The Cool World (1963)
3.4 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 50min
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- Synopsis:
Filmmaker Shirley Clarke ("The Connection") directs this powerful, stark semi-documentary look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair due to the racial prejudices of American society. There is no patronizing of the black race in this cinematic cry for justice. A fifteen-year-old boy called Duke (Rony Clanton) is ambitious to buy a "piece" (a gun) from an adult racketeer named Priest (Carl Lee), to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to return them to active "bopping" (gang fighting) which has declined in Harlem. It is a clearly patent allegory of an attempt by Duke to attain manhood and identity in the only way accessible to him - the antisocial one. - Actors:
- Rony Clanton, Carl Lee, Yolanda Rodríguez, Clarence Williams III, Gary Bolling, Bostic Felton, Gloria Foster, John Marriott, Georgia Burke, Marilyn Cox, Jerome Raphael, Mel Stewart, Joe Dennis, Ronald Perry, Bruce Edwards, Lloyd Edwards, Teddy McCain, Joe Oliver, Claude Cave, Maurice Sneed
- Directors:
- Shirley Clarke
- Producers:
- Frederick Wiseman
- Writers:
- Shirley Clarke, Carl Lee, Warren Miller, Robert Rossen
- Genres:
- Documentary, Drama
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