European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Big screen from Gregory Diane Lane and Richard Cere in the Cotton the Cotton club is fuzzy picture by Christopher Wienandt staff writer the Cotton club cant decide what it wants to be when it grows its part gangster part love part Showbiz but its not enough of any of them to be really the confusion begins with a gang War involving dutch Schultx James Remar and various other underworld none of whom Are Ever put in any kind of these Are powerful and dangerous Guys they gun a few people one faction kidnaps a Leader of dutch stabs a Man to and theres an attempt to blow dutch but amid All the its just about impossible to say who doing what to or Why there doing we just have to take it on Faith that they think they have Good reason to unfortunate casting Doest help the the major mistakes involve the major americas Richard plays Dixie a smart mouthed but lovable saxophonist who unwillingly becomes dutch bodyguard and eventually a movie dont ask but he looks More startling than sexy with his greased Back hair and Pencil Diane Lane Doest fare any she looks her part Vera one of dutch molls who eventually becomes successful As a nightclub but with her Flat she Doest sound she Doest act her performance has the air of a High school cheerleader who been cast in the senior class play because of her All is not Gregory Hines is excellent As Sandman a dancer at Harlem Cotton where a Good bit of the action takes so Are Lonette Mckee As Lila Rose the woman he Maurice Hines As his and Nicolas Cage As dwyers the film is a Jumble of Story possibly because three people were involved in concocting among the perpetrators Are Francis Coppola and Mario who could have been expected to handle at least the gangster aspects of the script More the other person responsible is William who wrote the script with Coppola if theres any theme running through the Cotton its betrayal mobster against brother against Friend against dutch stabs Gangland foe Joe Flynn Vincent kidnaps one of dutch righthand men Clay snubs thinking he has sabotaged their dance it amounts to this degenerating human relations against a setting of degenerate even if the Cotton club fails As a its got a couple of things to recommend its a showcase for a Good sampling of american popular music of the 20s and 30s aint the Sheik of Stormy Minnie the and plenty of other and even though the movie Doest hold there Are some Fine individual in one of the most a scene that says far More than it seems a drop of a murdered mans blood that has splattered onto a chandelier drips onto Diane lanes its a chilling too bad the whole film int As the Cotton club is making the rounds of cafes Karlstedt Bremerhaven Berlin a the last Star fighter pm Rev Sutu witness r we red Dawn pg13 the i i i be drummer girl r Hartstedt Samo City heat pm two sixteen candles pm Rev Thor crimes of passion r radio Bremerhaven a the my puts take 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