| 词条 | The Cool World (film) |
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| name = The Cool World | image = The Cool World.jpg | caption = Theatrical poster | director = Shirley Clarke | writer = Warren Miller (novel) Robert Rossen (play) Shirley Clarke (screenplay) | producer = Frederick Wiseman | starring = Hampton Clanton Yolanda Rodríguez Antonio Fargas Carl Lee Clarence Williams III | released = {{Film date|1963|09|02}} | music = Mal Waldron (composer) The Dizzy Gillespie quintet (performer) | studio = Wiseman Film Productions | distributor = [Cinema V] | country = United States | runtime = 125 min. | language = English }} The Cool World is a 1963 feature film directed by Shirley Clarke about African-American life in the Royal Pythons, a youth gang in Harlem.[1] 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". The film is considered by some critics to be the first film within the Blaxploitation genre. Cast and crewThe Cool World stars real Harlem youth, and some real gang members:
Original music by Mal Waldron and cinematography by Baird Bryant Production backgroundThis semi-documentary style movie was produced by soon-to-be documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, directed by Shirley Clarke, and adapted by Clarke and Carl Lee from the 1959 novel The Cool World by Warren Miller. A play, written by Miller and Robert Rossen based on the novel, was first shown in Philadelphia and then twice at Broadway's Eugene O'Neill Theatre on February 22 and 23, 1960, featuring Raymond St. Jacques, James Earl Jones, Calvin Lockhart, Hilda Simms, and others.[2] The film helped launch Antonio Fargas, Clarence Williams III, Carl Lee, and Gloria Foster, who married Williams three years later. SoundtrackThe soundtrack to the film was recorded by Dizzy Gillespie and his quintet, and was released as an album of the same name in 1964. See also
References1. ^[https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9802E3DE1030E033A25752C2A9629C946591D6CF New York Times] 2. ^IBDB; Internet Broadway Database External links
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