George Morgan
Walter Dinsmore
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Chafed Elbows: Directed by Robert Downey Sr.. With George Morgan, Elsie Downey, Lawrence Wolf, Tom O'Horgan. A welfare recipient marries his mother.
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- Comedy
- Robert Downey Sr.
- 1966
Chafed Elbows is a 1966 still image film directed by Robert Downey Sr. A manic comic parody underground film made for $12,000, Chafed Elbows was a commercial success. The film was premiered at The Gate Theater in New York City and ran for over one month alongside Scorpio Rising.
For Chafed Elbows, incest is only the beginning. Downey offers scabrous takes on analysis, contemporary art, fetishism, pretentious low budget filmmakers and motherhood. He credits the New York Police Department with “a special hindrance.” Dinsmore can’t be called a picaresque hero.
- Robert Downey
- George Morgan
"Chafed Elbows" is an unpredictable and amusing movie, definitely belonging to the times it was made and the underground scene where it was formed in warning against the dangers of...
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- George Morgan
- Robert Downey Sr.
Chafed Elbows. This riot of bad taste was a breakthrough for Downey, thanks to rave notices. Visualized largely in still 35 mm photographs, it follows a shiftless downtown Manhattanite having his “annual November breakdown” as he wanders from one odd job to the next, coming across all sorts of sordid types, from a desperate independent ...
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