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Bookmark this pageLenny Bruce Without Tears (1972)
Director: Fred Baker
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Lenny Bruce would have hated this film. He would have called it sloppy, both in execution and in feeling. Although it contains some brilliant and excruciatingly funny routines from various stages in Bruce's career (and some interesting interviews), it is linked together by a moralistic continuity, hammered home by Fred Baker's heavy-voiced, humourless narration, concerned to point out how Bruce was driven to his death by a society fighting back against the vision of itself that he revealed. The moral may be true, in part; but it is too simple. Still, careless and sentimentalised as it is, the film is well worth seeing for every frame of Bruce (except the truly obscene final shots).Author: MH
Cast & crew
Director: Fred Baker
Producer: Fred Baker
Cast: Lenny Bruce, Steve Allen, Malcolm Muggeridge, Kenneth Tynan, Jean Shepard, Mort Sahl, Nat Hentoff, Fred Baker full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 85 mins
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