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The Cotton Club

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Last broadcast on Sun, 1 Nov 2009, 23:25 on BBC Four (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

Musical drama set in 1928 that pays a visually striking tribute to the Prohibition era.

Jazz musician Dixie Dwyer saves a gangster's life and gets sucked into the mobster's world of bootleg liquor, racketeering and escalating violence, centred round the eponymous Harlem nightclub.

Credits

Dixie Dwyer
Richard Gere
Sandman Williams
Gregory Hines
Vera Cicero
Diane Lane
Lila Rose Oliver
Lonette McKee
Owney Madden
Bob Hoskins
Dutch Schultz
James Remar
Vincent Dwyer
Nicolas Cage
Abbadabba Berman
Allen Garfield
Director
Francis Coppola
Producer
Robert Evans
Writer
William Kennedy
Writer
Francis Coppola

Broadcasts

  1. Mon 26 Oct 2009
    22:00
  2. Sun 1 Nov 2009
    23:25

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Duration

120 minutes

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