An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a bitter tone about his fate, and takes us through his fame, as he ruins it with womanizing and drink, and his fall, as a lonely, bitter old man unable to reconcile his life's disappointments. The movie is based loosely on the life of Buster Keaton.
Dick Van Dyke
Michele Lee
Mickey Rooney
Cornel Wilde
Nina Wayne
Pert Kelton
Steve Allen
Barbara Heller
Ed Peck
Jeannine Riley
Gavin MacLeod
Jay Novello
Craig Huebing
Paulene Myers
Fritz Feld
Jerome Cowan
Isabel Sanford
Jeff Donnell
Carl Reiner
Howard Dayton
Maurice Dallimore
Mantan Moreland