The Cool World

The Cool World

The Cool World

5.5/ 10

TMDB Rating

22

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1964

Release Year

105 min

Runtime

Crime

Drama

Overview

A fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to return them to active "bopping" (gang fighting) which has declined in Harlem.

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Keywords

based on novel or book

jazz

ghetto

based on play or musical

blaxploitation cinema

gang

racism

teenage boy

inner city

manhattan, new york city

woman director

harlem, new york city

cinéma vérité

direct cinema

race relations

juvenile delinquency

black power

independent film

youth poverty

Cast

Rony Clanton

Rony Clanton

Duke

Carl Lee

Carl Lee

Priest

Yolanda Rodríguez

Luanne

Clarence Williams III

Clarence Williams III

Blood

Gary Bolling

Gary Bolling

Littleman

Bostic Felton

Rod

Joe Oliver

Angel

Gloria Foster

Gloria Foster

Duke's Mom

Ted Butler

Mom's lover

Marilyn Cox

Prostitute

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