When was feature film Cooley High released and who produced it?”
Cooley High is a 1975 feature film produced and released by American International Pictures and written by Eric Monte (co-creator of Good Times). The film, set in 1964 Chicago, Illinois, stars Glynn Turman and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, and featuring a soundtrack made up primarily of 1960s Motown hits. The film is considered a classic of black cinema, and its soundtrack features a new Motown recording, G.C. Cameron’s hit single “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday”. That song was covered in 1991 by Motown act Boyz II Men on the group’s first LP, named Cooleyhighharmony in honor of this film. Cooley High is frequently compared favorably to the 1973 George Lucas film American Graffiti and the The Big Chill. ABC had planned a television adaptation of Cooley High, but the pilot was poorly received, and Fred Silverman, the head of the network, asked the pilot’s producers, TOY Productions, to redo the show as a sitcom with new characters (Raj, Rerun and the rest)and with a new title so as
Cooley High From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For the unrelated, real-life high school in Detroit, Michigan, see Cooley High School. Cooley High The DVD version of Cooley High Directed by Michael Schultz Produced by Steve Krantz Written by Eric Monte Starring Glynn Turman Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs Music by Freddie Perren Distributed by AIP Release date(s) June 25, 1975 Running time 107 min. Country United States Language English Cooley High is a 1975 feature film produced and released by American International Pictures and written by Eric Monte (co-creator of Good Times). The film, set in 1964 Chicago, Illinois, stars Glynn Turman and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, and featuring a soundtrack made up primarily of 1960s Motown hits. The film is considered a classic of black cinema, and its soundtrack features a new Motown recording, G.C. Cameron’s hit single “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday”. That song was covered in 1991 by Motown act Boyz II Men on the gr
Feature film Cooley High was released in 1975 and it’s produced and released by American International Pictures. Cooley High was written by Eric Monte who was also the co-creator of Good Times. The film stars Glynn Turman and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and also features a soundtrack made up primarily of 1960s Motown hits single “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday”. Cooley High is a film which is frequently compared favourably not only to the George Lucas film American Graffiti but also to the The Big Chill.
