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The Comic

Comedy

Drama

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.

Date: 11/19/1969

Rating: 5.9

Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Michele Lee, Mickey Rooney, Cornel Wilde, Nina Wayne, Pert Kelton, Steve Allen, Barbara Heller, Ed Peck, Jeannine Riley, Gavin MacLeod, Jay Novello, Craig Huebing, Paulene Myers, Fritz Feld, Jerome Cowan, Isabel Sanford, Jeff Donnell, Carl Reiner, Howard Dayton, Maurice Dallimore, Mantan Moreland

Dick Van Dyke