The Cool World (film)
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| Directed by | Shirley Clarke |
| Written by | Warren Miller (novel) Robert Rossen (play) Shirley Clarke (screenplay) |
| Produced by | Frederick Wiseman |
| Starring | Hampton Clanton Yolanda Rodríguez Antonio Fargas Carl Lee Clarence Williams III |
| Music by | Mal Waldron (composer) The Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (performer) |
Production company | Wiseman Film Productions |
| Distributed by | Cinema V |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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".