It’s a story that takes us through the 1929 crash, to Hollywood and back, and all around Harlem, with a special emphasis on the Jewish and Irish gang conflicts rattling the city. Coppola’s lively tale of two upstart entertainers-Dixie Dwyer (Gere) and Sandman Williams (Gregory Hines)-was whittled down to focus more on the Dwyer plot, which involves the young trumpet player taking up a job with a gangster and falling for the gangster’s girl (Lane) as his brother (Cage) dives headfirst into a life of violent crime. 35 years ago, The Cotton Club was released in mutilated form. They were said to be upstaging the movie’s white storyline, which was headed up by an even bigger crew of notable names: Richard Gere and Nicolas Cage, Diane Lane, Gwen Verdon, Bob Hoskins, James Remar, Fred Gwynne, Tom Waits-even Warhol hunk Joe Dallesandro.Īnd the director relented. The story goes that when Francis Ford Coppola’s maligned and misbegotten 1984 film The Cotton Club was still being made, there were concerns from higher-ups that the film’s black cast-chock full of luminaries, among them the real-life, fraternal dance pair Gregory and Maurice Hines-was too much of the focus.
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