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27 February 1965 (Japan) moreTagline:
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! morePlot:
Filmmaker Shirley Clarke ("The Connection") directs this powerful, stark semi-documentary look at the... more | add synopsisAwards:
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The Cool Word is a Ground Breaking Film moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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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New York City, New York, USAFun Stuff
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This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1994. moreFAQ
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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.