Genres

Comedy , Documentary

Duration

70 min

Director

Fred Baker

Rating

3.3

Release Date

January 1, 1972

Lenny Bruce: Without Tears

Original title: Lenny Bruce: Without Tears

Synopsis

The outrageous, groundbreaking comic Lenny Bruce, whose iconoclastic material in a conservative era got him into tragic trouble, is profiled by a close friend, Fred Baker, who prefers to remember the laughs Lenny Bruce's memory evokes instead of the tears. By presenting Bruce's landmark skits on the Steve Allen Show, his failed TV pilot episode and a candid interview with Nat Hentoff, Bruce's genius and anguish show through the dramatic and tragic trajectory of his career from aspiring artist to hunted "lawbreaker".