The Cool World (1963)
1h 45m
Running Time
September 2, 1963Release Date
The Cool World (1963)
1h 45m
Running Time
September 2, 1963Release Date
Plot.
A fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to return them to active "bopping" (gang fighting) which has declined in Harlem.
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Cast & Crew.
Rony Clanton
Duke
Carl Lee
Priest
Yolanda Rodríguez
Luanne
Gary Bolling
Littleman
Clarence Williams III
Blood
Bostic Felton
Rod
Shirley Clarke
Director
Warren Miller
Writer
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Details.
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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. 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".