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The Cool World

1964

Shirley Clarke

Hampton Clanton, Carl Lee, Yolanda Rodríguez, Clarence Williams III ...

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Drama 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, ... [+]

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