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The Cool World (1963)
Filmmaker Shirley Clarke ("The Connection") directs this powerful, stark semi-documentary look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair due to the racial prejudices of American society. There is no patronizing of the black race in this cinematic cry for justice. A fifteen-year-old boy called Duke is ambitious to buy a "piece" (a gun) from an adult racketeer named Priest, to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to return them to active "bopping" (gang fighting) which has declined in Harlem. It is a clearly patent allegory of an attempt by Duke to attain manhood and identity in the only way accessible to him - the antisocial one.
Updated May 23 2020
Cast
Clarence Williams III
Blood (as Clarence Williams)
Richard Ward
Street speaker
Antonio Fargas
Carl Lee
Priest
Rony Clanton
Duke (as Hampton Clanton)
Gary Bolling
Littleman
Yolanda Rodríguez
Luanne
Crew
Hugh A. Robertson
Sound Editor
Robert Rossen
Theatre Play
Carl Lee
Writer
Frederick Wiseman
Producer
Shirley Clarke
Director
Shirley Clarke
Writer
Shirley Clarke
Editor
Baird Bryant
Director of Photography
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