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The Comic is a 1969 American Pathécolor comedy-drama film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Carl Reiner. It stars Dick Van Dyke as Billy Bright (which was the original title of the film), Michele Lee as Bright's love interest, and Reiner himself and Mickey Rooney as Bright's friends and colleagues. Reiner wrote the screenplay with Aaron ...
Oct 2, 1970 · A comedy drama film directed by Carl Reiner and loosely based on the life of Buster Keaton. Dick Van Dyke plays Billy Bright, a talented but egotistical silent film comic who faces fame, fortune and tragedy in Hollywood.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Carl Reiner
- 1970-10-02
Structured as a memory piece, The Comic is narrated by a postmortem Billy Bright as he lies in repose in a mortuary casket, a likely nod to Billy Wilder's proposed opening to Sunset Boulevard (1950), which was nixed by the studio.
- Carl Reiner, Rusty Meek
- Dick Van Dyke
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- Carl Reiner
- 95 min
Nov 19, 2019 · ‘The Comic’: THR’s 1969 Review. On Nov. 19, 1969, Columbia premiered a comedic, yet dark, look at Hollywood with Dick Van Dyke starring as a silent movie star in The Comic. The Hollywood...
- John Goff
A silent-film comedian (Dick Van Dyke) drinks, cheats on his wife (Michele Lee), bullies his buddy (Mickey Rooney) and makes a brief TV comeback.
- (6)
- Comedy, Drama
- PG
In Carl Reiner's The Comic, Dick Van Dyke gets to show his full range of talents especially in he art of pantomime. In homage to the the great silent screen comics like Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and Van Dyke's own hero and mentor Stan Laurel.
