The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age.
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
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James Cagney
New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo
Brad Dourif
Younger Brother
Moses Gunn
Booker T. Washington
Elizabeth McGovern
Evelyn Nesbit
Kenneth McMillan
Willie Conklin
Pat O'Brien
Delmas
Donald O'Connor
Evelyn's Dance Instructor
James Olson
Father
Mandy Patinkin
Tateh
Howard Rollins
Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Mary Steenburgen
Mother
Debbie Allen
Sarah
Jeffrey DeMunn
Harry Houdini
Robert Joy
Henry Thaw
Norman Mailer
Stanford White
Miloš Forman
Director
Michael Weller
Screenplay
E. L. Doctorow
Novel
Michael Hausman
Executive Producer
Bernard Williams
Executive Producer
Dino De Laurentiis
Producer
Miroslav Ondříček
Director of Photography
Randy Newman
Original Music Composer
Anne V. Coates
Editor
Antony Gibbs
Editor
Stanley Warnow
Editor
Anna Hill Johnstone
Costume Design
Patrizia von Brandenstein
Production Design
Tony Reading
Production Design
John Graysmark
Production Design
