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The Cotton Club

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.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 1 Nov 200923:25
BBC Four

Credits

Dixie DwyerRichard Gere
Sandman WilliamsGregory Hines
Vera CiceroDiane Lane
Owney MaddenBob Hoskins
Dutch SchultzJames Remar
Vincent DwyerNicolas Cage
Frenchy DemangeFred Gwynne
Tish DwyerGwen Verdon
Frances FlegenheimerLisa Jane Persky
Gloria SwansonDiane Venora
HolmesWoody Strode
Big Joe IsonBill Cobbs
Fanny BriceRosalind Harris
ComposerJohn Barry

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