The Cool World (1964)
Overview
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.
Cast
Rony Clanton
Duke
Clarence Williams III
Blood
Gary Bolling
Littleman
Gloria Foster
Duke's Mom
Richard Ward
Street speaker
Antonio Fargas
(uncredited)Recommendations
The Cotton Club
Mob Town
Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema
Belly
Paid in Full
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Shaft
American Gangster
Riot in Cell Block 11
Juice
The Kitchen
True Believer
State Property
Ill Manors
Siberian Education
The Hate U Give
The Many Saints of Newark
Imperial Dreams
Mean Streets
Bound by Honor