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The Cool World
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Based on the novel by Warren Miller, THE COOL WORLD was produced by Frederick Wiseman and directed by Shirley Clarke.

This film is an electrifying revelation of the American problem: the desperate meaning of segregation that will not easily be erased even if every civil rights battle is won for the next ten years…

–James Farmer,


THE COOL WORLD… is a hauntingly bitter, savagely realistic yet not unpoetic look at a world you don’t know. You won’t be entertained by the film but you will be rewarded — if you don’t scare easily. Director Shirley Clarke… has, in every sense, authored a work of art… judged as a documentary study of the world’s foremost metropolitan jungle… ‘THE COOL WORLD’ is an unqualified success.

–Mike McGrady, Newsday


THE COOL WORLD is a loud, long and powerful cry of outrage at the world society has created for Harlem youngsters and at the human condition in the slum ghetto…

–Judith Crist, The New York Herald Tribune


Purchase Prices

Educational

includes public performance rights
VHS - $400.00

16MM Rentals

released 1964, 104 minutes
B&W

THIS FILM IS NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD.


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