The Comic

5.9

United States Of America

Comedy Drama

95 min

1969

Bill Zuckert Howard Morris Ethelreda Leopold Kenner G. Kemp Suzie Kaye Leonard Frey Paul Frees Luis Delgado Billy Curtis Calvin Coolidge Ottola Nesmith William H. O'Brien Ward Ramsey Dick Winslow Jean Willes Johnny Weissmüller Irene Tedrow Johnny Silver Jeffrey Sayre Cosmo Sardo Paul Russell Mark Russell Peter Brocco William Boyce Jeannine Riley Ed Peck Barbara Heller Steve Allen Pert Kelton Nina Wayne Cornel Wilde Mickey Rooney Michele Lee Gavin MacLeod Jay Novello Paulene Myers Jack Berle Lillian Adams Mantan Moreland Maurice Dallimore Carl Reiner Jeff Donnell Isabel Sanford Jerome Cowan Fritz Feld Dick Van Dyke

An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a bitter tone about his fate, and takes us through his fame, as he ruins it with womanizing and drink, and his fall, as a lonely, bitter old man unable to reconcile his life's disappointments. The movie is based loosely on the life of Buster Keaton.