The Cool World (1963)
With Clarence Williams III, Gloria Foster, Joe Oliver, Billy Taylor, Richard Ward, Val Bisoglio, Antonio Fargas, Dizzy Gillespie
Directed by Shirley Clarke
The Cool World is a 1963 American drama 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".
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