Oct 30, 2006 3:47 pm US/Eastern
Movie Trailer - Cocaine Cowboys
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Now playing in theatres
Rated "R"
MIAMI (CBS4) ―
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Kilos of cocaine on display, from the movie "Cocaine Cowboys" (Magnolia Pictures)
Magnolia Pictures
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"Cocaine Cowboys" features reports and interviews with CBS4'S Al Sunshine who reported on the crime wave during the cocaine wars.
Magnolia Pictures
The new documentary by Billy Corben relives Miami's high times in the early '80s when cocaine smuggling was the new business emerging in Miami that changed that face of the city forever.
Colombian suppliers found that Miami was a good place to bring it into the United States, and a new breed of outlaws were more than happy to face the risks of importing cocaine in exchange for the massive profits to be made.
At one time, cocaine runners were making so much money that the city's banks were running out of room to store the cash, and smugglers were developing new ways to move the product, from floating tanks with radio tracking devices dropped into the ocean to cars stashed with drugs so well-connected drivers with tow trucks could haul them away and abandon them if necessary.
The profits from Miami's cocaine explosion helped to transform the city into a major American playground, but it also brought a criminal element interested in more than just dealing drugs, as bloody reprisals between competing gangs of smugglers became commonplace, and hitmen began working overtime to keep up with the demand for revenge.
Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman are a pair of Miami-based filmmakers who were able persuade a number of key figures from Miami's '80s cocaine trade to speak on-camera about their exploits, as well as law enforcement officials who struggled to keep up with them.
The result was Cocaine Cowboys, a true-life thriller about the underworld culture that helped spawn the film Scarface and the television series Miami Vice. Jan Hammer, who composed the Miami Vice theme song, created a like-minded score for the documentary.
While production took four months, post production required over a year. In addition to newly shot firsthand accounts from real cocaine cowboys and other survivors of Miami's Cocaine Wars, the movie features over 1200 archival shots and elements from nearly 700 historical and crime scene photos.
The documentary also features reports and interviews with
CBS-4'S Al Sunshine who reported on the crime wave that afflicted South Florida during the years of the Cocaine Cowboys.
Cocaine Cowboys opened Oct. 27.
It's rated "R".
Video provided by Magnolia Pictures.
(© MMVI, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)
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