Cool Breeze (film)

Cool Breeze
Original Theatrical Poster
Directed byBarry Pollack
Screenplay byBarry Pollack
Based onThe Asphalt Jungle
by W. R. Burnett
Produced byGene Corman
StarringThalmus Rasulala
Judy Pace
Jim Watkins
Lincoln Kilpatrick
Raymond St. Jacques
CinematographyAndy Davis
Edited byMorton Tubor
Music bySolomon Burke
Production
company
Penelope Productions
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • July 2, 1972 (1972-07-02)[1]
Running time
101 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Cool Breeze is a 1972 American blaxploitation heist film directed and co-written by Barry Pollack and starring Thalmus Rasulala. It was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is loosely based on W. R. Burnett's 1949 novel The Asphalt Jungle. It is the fourth film adaptation of the novel, after The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The Badlanders (1958) and Cairo (1963). The film was released with the tagline: "He hit the Man for $3 million. Right where it hurts. In the diamonds. And baby, that's cold."

  1. ^ "Cool Breeze". 2 July 1972 – via IMDb.
  2. ^ "Cool Breeze". 2 July 1972 – via IMDb.