The Comic

1969
M/PG
1h 34m

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MA NOTE

L'histoire d'un brillant comique de cinéma muet dont le talent est éclipsé par son ego.L'histoire d'un brillant comique de cinéma muet dont le talent est éclipsé par son ego.L'histoire d'un brillant comique de cinéma muet dont le talent est éclipsé par son ego.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,4/10

974

MA NOTE

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Anecdotes
While starring in The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961), Van Dyke called up Stan Laurel to ask for permission to do a Laurel & Hardy bit in an episode. Laurel told him that neither he nor Hardy's heirs owned the rights to the characters. Van Dyke and Reiner were horrified that Laurel didn't even own the rights to his own face, and this picture is the result.

Gaffes
When Billy and Cockeye are walking along the Hollywood Walk of Fame, they are on Vine Street near the intersection of Selma Avenue. However, the stars' markers they point out are not in a row, or even near each other at that location.

Citations
[first lines]
Passerby at Billy's Funeral: Who checked out?
Hearse Driver: An old-time movie actor.
Passerby at Billy's Funeral: What's his name?
Hearse Driver: Billy Bright.
Passerby at Billy's Funeral: Billy Bright? Billy Bright?
Hearse Driver: Yeah, he was... back in the silent movies.
Passerby at Billy's Funeral: Oh, Billy Bright! I thought he was dead?

Connexions
Features The Best Mouse Loses (1920)

Bandes originales
Yes! We Have No Bananas
Written by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn
Performed by Dick Van Dyke
Briefly sung by Billy Bright in voiceover and used as a leitmotif throughout the film

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There's a scene that hard to forget

I watched "The Comic" on TV when I was teen. Sure, it was not the very best movie I ever watched. But somehow it was unforgettable. Until today, I still can recall a scene when drunk Billy Bright (Dick Van Dyke) smashing neighbor's house thinking that it was his. Sad, funny, and bitterness mixed. After "The Comic", for me, Dick Van Dyke had never been funnier then.