The Cotton Club was the Jazz Age's most electrifying showcase and Harlen's most notorious speakeasy. A jazz musician, Richard Gere, saves the life of mobster Dutch Schultz, only to fight for his own life when he falls for the psychotic gangster's moll. Also starring Gregory Hines as a dancer trying to leap the barrier of prejudice.
- Richard Gere
- Gregory Hines
- Diane Lane
- Nicolas Cage
- Julian Beck
- Joe Dallesandro
- Charles ""Honi"" Coles
- Jennifer Grey
- Fred Gwynne
- Larry Fishburne
- Allen Garfield
- Giancarlo Esposito
- Maurice Hines
- Bob Hoskins
- Lonette McKee
- James Remar
- Lisa Jane Persky
- James Russo
- Tom Waits
- Diane Venora
- Gwen Verdon
- Woody Strode
- Art Director: Les Bloom
- Set Decorator : Les Bloom
- Composer: John Barry
- Line Producer: Joseph Cusumano
- Costume Designer: Milena Canonero
- Director: Francis Coppola
- Screenplay: Francis Coppola
- Story by: Francis Coppola
- Producer: Robert Evans
- Art Director: George Gaines
- Set Decorator : George Gaines
- Cinematographer: Stephen Goldblatt
- Based on a Work by: James Haskins
- Screenplay: William Kennedy
- Story by: William Kennedy
- Executive Producer: Dyson Lovell
- Editor: Barry Malkin
- Line Producer: Barrie M. Osborne
- Story by: Mario Puzo
- Co-Producer : Fred Roos
- Art Director: Richard Sylbert
- Production Designer: Richard Sylbert
- Set Decorator : Richard Sylbert
- Co-Producer : Sylvio Tabet
