The Cool World (1963)
1h 45m
Running Time
September 2, 1963Release Date
The Cool World (1963)
1h 45m
Running Time
September 2, 1963Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

Rony Clanton
Duke

Carl Lee
Priest / Writer

Yolanda Rodríguez
Luanne

Clarence Williams III
Blood

Gary Bolling
Littleman

Bostic Felton
Rod

Joe Oliver
Angel

Gloria Foster
Duke's Mom

Ted Butler
Mom's lover

John Marriott
Hurst

Marilyn Cox
Prostitute

Georgia Burke
Grandma

Richard Ward
Street speaker

Antonio Fargas
(uncredited)

Shirley Clarke
Director / Writer / Editor

Warren Miller
Novel
Media.

Details.
This Movie Is About.
jazz
gang
racism
woman director
harlem
Wiki.
The Cool World is a 1963 American drama 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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