Lenny Bruce: Without Tears
The outrageous, groundbreaking comic Lenny Bruce, whose iconoclastic material in a conservative era got him into tragic trouble, is profiled by a close friend, Fred Baker, who prefers to remember the laughs Lenny Bruce's memory evokes instead of the tears. By presenting Bruce's landmark skits on the Steve Allen Show, his failed TV pilot episode and a candid interview with Nat Hentoff, Bruce's genius and anguish show through the dramatic and tragic trajectory of his career from aspiring artist to hunted "lawbreaker".The outrageous, groundbreaking comic Lenny Bruce, whose iconoclastic material in a conservative era got him into tragic trouble, is profiled by a close friend, Fred Baker, who prefers to remember the laughs Lenny Bruce's memor... Read more
Starring Lenny Bruce, Steve Allen, Fred Baker, Martin Garbus, William Glenesk, Nat Hentoff, Frank Hogan, Paul Krassner, Malcolm Muggeridge, Mort Sahl
It's a biography and documentary movie, and has a rating of 6.1 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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