Features: DVD, Mandarin Chinese
Lenny Bruce's only performance caught on film during the last year of his life. Appearing at Basin Street West in San Francisco in 1965, this was his next-to-last live appearance and directly addresses the accusations and allegations stemming from his multiple arrests for obscenity. This performance also contains some of his famous stand-up bits including the prison riot with Dutch, the Warden, Father Flotski, and Sabu, the prison doctor.Also features the animated short film Thank You Mask Man.
"Pertinent, personal, outrageous - the most poignant comedy of the decade." Playboy Magazine
"An absolutely priceless document that shows Lenny's flashing mind, the clarity of his perception build through the film to an overwhelming final impact." Rolling Stone
"Bursting with indignation that remains freshly irreverent and blackly funny." The New York Times
Editor's Note
The only full-length unedited film from this brilliant comic. Also includes the animated masterpiece "Thank You Mask Man." filmed in August of 1965 at San Francisco's Basin Street West, this video focuses on his well publicized New York obscenity trial and is one of the last performances Bruce did before his death exactly one year later.
Plot Summary
The only full length, unedited film, shot in August of 1965 at a nightclub in San Francisco, of one of America's best comic talents, Lenny Bruce.
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