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Director:
Shirley Clarke
Writers:
Shirley Clarke (writer)
Carl Lee (writer)
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Release Date:
27 February 1965 (Japan) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Tagline:
These are the ones who play it cool, and find out about life and love before they're in high school ! This is the picture that explodes like a time bomb In the face of a city! more
Plot:
Filmmaker Shirley Clarke ("The Connection") directs this powerful, stark semi-documentary look at the... more | add synopsis
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The Cool Word is a Ground Breaking Film more

Cast

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Hampton Clanton ... Duke
Carl Lee ... Priest
Yolanda Rodríguez ... Luanne
Clarence Williams III ... Blood (as Clarence Williams)
Gary Bolling ... Littleman
Bostic Felton ... Rod
Gloria Foster ... Mrs. Custis
John Marriott ... Hurst
Georgia Burke ... Grandma
Marilyn Cox ... Miss Dewpoint
Jerome Raphael ... Mr. Shapiro
Mel Stewart ... Con-man
Joe Dennis ... Douglas Thurston (as Joseph Dennis)
Ronald Perry ... Savage
Bruce Edwards ... Warrior
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Additional Details

Runtime:
105 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
New York City, New York, USA

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This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1994. more

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2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
The Cool Word is a Ground Breaking Film, 24 December 2007
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Author: Daniel Peterson from United States

The Cool World is the first film about Harlem that was actually shot in Harlem. Hanging the camera from the ceiling provides a very personal experience for the viewer. The viewer is there as a participant, not as a spectator.

The Cool World is a very much not a Hollywood looking film with fast moving, up close, scenes. Dark yellow hued interior scenes capture the true feeling of the dwellings of the gang members. Shirley Clarke has taken us into The Cool World.

Little known trivia, is that Wally Cox's wife acted in this film. Another little known piece of trivia is that, since she lived in the Chelsea Hotel during the time that Sid Vicious also lived there, Shirley Clarke was a consultant on the film Sid and Nancy.

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