--- title: 'The Cool World (1963)' type: 'film' director: 'Shirley Clarke' released: '1963-01-01' runtime_minutes: 105 genres: - 'History' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-cool-world-1963' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056952/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Cool World (1963) 1963 · 105 min · History · United States ## Synopsis 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". ## Credits - **Screenplay:** [Carl Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-lee), [Shirley Clarke](https://cinepixo.com/people/shirley-clarke) - **Director:** [Shirley Clarke](https://cinepixo.com/people/shirley-clarke) - **Editor:** [Shirley Clarke](https://cinepixo.com/people/shirley-clarke) - **Original Music Composer:** [Mal Waldron](https://cinepixo.com/people/mal-waldron) - **Producer:** [Frederick Wiseman](https://cinepixo.com/people/frederick-wiseman) ## Cast - [Dizzy Gillespie](https://cinepixo.com/people/dizzy-gillespie) - [Antonio Fargas](https://cinepixo.com/people/antonio-fargas) - [Val Bisoglio](https://cinepixo.com/people/val-bisoglio) - [Clarence Williams III](https://cinepixo.com/people/clarence-williams-iii) - [Billy Taylor](https://cinepixo.com/people/billy-taylor) - [Richard Ward](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-ward) - [Mel Stewart](https://cinepixo.com/people/mel-stewart) - [Gloria Foster](https://cinepixo.com/people/gloria-foster) - [Carl Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-lee) - [Joe Oliver](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-oliver) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-cool-world-1963 Film facts: Wikidata (Q7727567); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.