Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Robert B. Weide
Lotus Weinstock
Paul Krassner
Maynard Sloate
Steve Allen
Kitty Bruce
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In the late '40s stand-up comic Lenny Bruce shared the stage with the local strippers, and married one of them. By the '50s he had perfected a jazzy, improvisational delivery that led to TV dates with hosts Steve Allen and Hugh Hefner. By the early '60s Bruce's sold out club dates were cracking up audiences from coast to coast, taking a hipster's aim at conventionality and hypocrisy (and the Catholic Church) arguably the reason prosecutors now felt compelled to arrest him repeatedly for obscenity and narcotics possession. The film revisits Lenny Bruce's greatest triumphs and the depths of his tragedy.
Director
Robert B. Weide
Cast
Lotus Weinstock
Paul Krassner
Maynard Sloate
Steve Allen
Kitty Bruce
Honey Bruce
Robert De Niro
Martin Garbus
Richard Kuh
Jojo D'amoro
Nat Hentoff
Jackie Gayle
Howard Solomon
Sally Marr
Crew
Steve Allen
Geof Bartz
Honey Bruce
Kitty Bruce
Jojo D'amoro
Martin Garbus
Jackie Gayle
Nat Hentoff
Paul Krassner
Richard Kuh
Sally Marr
Sheila Nevins
Maynard Sloate
Howard Solomon
Robert B. Weide
Robert B. Weide
Robert B. Weide
Lotus Weinstock
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Documentary Feature
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Fall October 21, 1998
Released in United States September 1998
Shown at Aspen Filmfest in Aspen, Colorado September 23-27, 1998.
Released in United States Fall October 21, 1998
Released in United States September 1998 (Shown at Aspen Filmfest in Aspen, Colorado September 23-27, 1998.)
