The Cool World (film)

The Cool World 1963 is a feature film about AfricanAmerican life in the Royal Pythons, a youth gang in Harlem.

This semidocumentary looking movie was produced by Frederick Wiseman, directed by Shirley Clarke, and adapted by her 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 Broadways Eugene ONeill Theatre on Februaryand 23, 1960, featuring Raymond St. Jacques, James Earl Jones, Calvin Lockhart, Hilda Simms, and others. The film helped launch Antonio Fargas, Clarence Williams III, Carl Lee, and Gloria Foster, who married Williams three years later. ........

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