The Cool World

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.

• Shirley ClarkeDirector
• Carl LeeWriter
• Shirley ClarkeWriter
• Mal WaldronOriginal Music Composer

• Rony ClantonDuke
• Carl LeePriest
• Yolanda RodríguezLuanne
• Clarence Williams IIIBlood
• Gary BollingLittleman
• Bostic FeltonRod
• Joe OliverAngel
• Gloria FosterDuke's Mom
• Ted ButlerMom's lover
• Marilyn CoxProstitute
• Richard WardStreet speaker
• Evadney CanegataCast