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Coney Island
Film / 1991

Coney Island

Directed by Ric Burns
HistoryDocumentary

★ 8.0/10Audience rating

Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of New York real estate was internationally famous. On summer Sundays, three great pleasure domes--Steeplechase, Luna Park and Dreamland--competed for the patronage of a half-million people. By day it was the world's most amazing amusement park, by night, an electric "Eden".

The story

Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of New York real estate was internationally famous. On summer Sundays, three great pleasure domes--Steeplechase, Luna Park and Dreamland--competed for the patronage of a half-million people. By day it was the world's most amazing amusement park, by night, an electric "Eden".

Cast

Philip BoscoNarrator (voice) Al LewisSelf - Actor Vincent GardeniaSelf - Actor Eli WallachSelf - Actor Elliot WillenskySelf - Writer Judd Hirsch(voice) George Plimpton(voice) Lois Smith(voice) Frances Sternhagen(voice)

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