The Comic (1969)
With Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Michele Lee, Cornel Wilde, Pert Kelton, Jerome Cowan, Isabel Sanford, Jeff Donnell
Directed by Carl Reiner
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 Ruben; it was inspired by the end of silent film era and, in part, by the life of silent film superstar Buster Keaton.
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