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The Comic

Sony Pictures (Nov 29, 1969)

6.4

1,188

Comedy | Drama

UK | English | Color | 01:18

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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.

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	Dick Van Dyke	William Simon aka Billy Bright
	Michele Lee	Mary Gibson
	Mickey Rooney	Martin 'Cockeye' Van Buren
	Cornel Wilde	Frank Powers
	Nina Wayne	Sybil Atlas
	Pert Kelton	Mama Bell
	Steve Allen	Steve Allen
	Barbara Heller	Ginger
	Ed Peck	Edwin G. Englehardt
	Jeannine Riley	Lorraine Margaret Bell
	Gavin MacLeod	1st Director
	Jay Novello	Miguel
	Craig Huebing	Doctor
	Paulene Myers	Phoebe
	Fritz Feld	Armand
	Jerome Cowan	Lawrence
	Isabel Sanford	Woman in Detergent Commercial
	Jeff Donnell	Nurse
	Carl Reiner	Al Schilling
	Frank Adamo	Minor Role
	Lillian Adams	Old Lady
	Priscilla Ann	Consuela
	Robert Ball	Mike Fields
	Frank Benson	Minor Role
	Mel Berger	Fatso