Lenny Bruce: Without Tears
Lenny Bruce: Without Tears
Release: 1972-01-01
·Runtime: 70m
·★ 3.3
Comedy
Documentary
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".
Production Countries
United States of America
Cast
Paul Krassner
as Self (archive footage)
Mort Sahl
as Self (archive footage)
Steve Allen
as Self / DJ (archive footage)
Nat Hentoff
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Shepherd
as Self (archive footage)
Kenneth Tynan
as Self (archive footage)
Lyndon B. Johnson
as Self (archive footage)
Fred Baker
as Narrator (voice)
Lenny Bruce
as Self (archive footage)