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The Cool World

5.519641h 45mMovieCrimeDrama

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.

DirectorShirley Clarke
WritersShirley Clarke·Carl Lee
ProducerFrederick Wiseman

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Cast · Directed by Shirley Clarke

RCRony Clanton
Rony Clanton
Duke
CLCarl Lee
Carl Lee
Priest
YR
Yolanda Rodríguez
Luanne
CIClarence Williams III
Clarence Williams III
Blood
GBGary Bolling
Gary Bolling
Littleman
BF
Bostic Felton
Rod
JO
Joe Oliver
Angel
GFGloria Foster
Gloria Foster
Duke's Mom
TB
Ted Butler
Mom's lover
MC
Marilyn Cox
Prostitute
RWRichard Ward
Richard Ward
Street speaker
EC
Evadney Canegata

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The Cool World hasn't started streaming in United Kingdom yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around June 8, 1964. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.