A motion-picture show was directed (& co-written) by Francis Ford Coppola and starred Richard Gere, Diane Lane, and Gregory Hines. More notability actors that appeared involved Nicolas Cage, Bob Hoskins, Laurence Fishburne and James Remar. It was nominated for many awards, including Golden Globes for Right Director & Best Picture (Drama) & a Oscar for best Cutting.

Gere plays a musician known as Dixie Dwyer world health organization begins working using gangster to advance his career however lessens crazy by owning the girlfriend (Lane) of gangland kingpin Dutch Schultz. Hines & Lonette McKee play dancers at the Cotton gauze Club around the sub-plot of the moving-picture show. A moving picture features numerous song & dance amounts including fancied performances by Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington. Nicolas Cage plays Dixie's brother Vincent, world health organization likewise becomes the mobster. Cage's character is according to real-life mobster Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll. Hines's real-life brother Maurice plays his brother in the film.

Laurence Fishburne would reprise his role when a Harlem mobster, Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson, in 1997's Hoodlum. In that film, he is known as "Bumpy" Rhodes.