Sammy-Gate
Sammy-Gate
Release: 2020-01-23
·★ 5.0
Drama
A dark political satire about how Sammy Davis, Jr. caused Watergate. Equal parts "Dr. Strangelove," "Zelig," and "Network," "Sammy-Gate" takes you on a psychedelic trip into the 1970s polyester heart of darkness. On a USO tour of Vietnam, Sammy Davis Jr. stumbles upon a CIA-sponsored plot to smuggle heroin into the United States. Through comic ineptitude mixed with noble intentions, Davis triggers a chain of bizarre missteps by the FBI, the Mafia, and the Nixon administration that result in the Watergate scandal.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
The J.X. Williams Archive
Cast
Phil Proctor
as Richard Nixon
Reginald M. Jernigan Jr.
as Night Tripper
Freddy Andreiuci
as Matty Madonna
Peter Henry Schroeder
as Santo Trafficante
Durga McBroom
as Talk Show Host
Theo Breaux
as PFC Garfield Mosley
Luis Fernandez-Gil
as Bebe Rebozo
Michael Patrick McGill
as Deep Throat
Richard Tanner
as Robert Maheu
Daniel Patrick Carbone
as Howard Hughes
