El comico

IMDb link: 0064179
IMDb rating: 6.4 (1,194 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Director: Cornel Wilde, Mickey Rooney, Carl Reiner
Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Michele Lee and others

Release date: 2 Oct 1970
Release year: 1969
Runtime: 94 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: los angeles california, silent movie star, 1920s, rise and fall, comedian, hollywood california, filmmaking as subject, nostalgia, television production as subject, clown

Plot:

A fictionalized 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.

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