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A Thousand Clowns

Cast

Jason Robards, Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam, Gene Saks View All

Crew

Fred Coe (Director), Herb Gardner (Screenplay) View All

Release: Dec. 13th, 1965

Runtime: 1 hour, 58 minutes

Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker, who falls in love with Murray and a bit in love with Nick. As the child welfare people try to force Murray to become a conventional man (as the price they demand for allowing him to keep Nick), the nephew, who until now has gloried in his Uncle's iconoclastic approach to life, tries...

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Gideon58
The film was made on a shoestring budget and filmed in black and white, most likely because Gardner and director Fred Coe refused to cast movie stars in the movie and wanted to do it with most of their original Broadway cast (Barbara Harris inherited the role originated by Sandy Dennis), but like I ....

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