Ragtime
The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age.
The story runs in the 1910's New York. Coalhouse Walker Jr. is a black piano player. He has won fame and fortune playing with a jazz band. Some white men do not like this situation, and one day they assault him and spoil his brand new car. Walker tries by all means to get justice, without an answer...
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
James Cagney
New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo
Elizabeth McGovern
Evelyn Nesbit
Howard E. Rollins Jr.
Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Brad Dourif
Younger Brother
Moses Gunn
Booker T. Washington
Kenneth McMillan
Willie Conklin
Pat O'Brien
Delmas
Donald O'Connor
Evelyn's Dance Instructor
James Olson
Father
Mandy Patinkin
Tateh
Randy Newman
Composer
Miroslav Ondříček
Cinematographer
