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The Cotton Club
It was the jazz age. It was an era of elegance and violence. The action was gambling. The stakes were life and death.
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Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
Lists that include The Cotton Club
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