Long before O'Reilly and Beck, Morton Downey, Jr., was tearing up the talk-show format with his divisive populism. Between the fistfights, rabid audience, and Mort's cigarette smoke always "in your face," The Morton Downey Jr. Show was billed as "3-D television," "rock and roll without the music." Évocateur meditates on the hysteria that ended the '80s and ultimately its most notorious agitator.
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Long before O'Reilly and Beck, Morton Downey, Jr., was tearing up the talk-show format with his divisive populism. Between the fistfights, rabid audience, and Mort's cigarette smoke always "in your face," The Morton Downey Jr. Show was billed as "3-D television," "rock and roll without the music." Évocateur meditates on the hysteria that ended the '80s and ultimately its most notorious agitator.
Self (archive footage)
Self
Self
Self
Self
Self
Self
Self (archive footage)
Movie / 2018
Movie / 1978
Movie / 1989
Movie / 1968
Movie / 1994
Movie / 2014
Movie / 2016
Movie / 1990
Movie / 2010
Movie / 1976
Movie / 2017
Movie / 2021
Movie / 1994
Movie / 2001
Movie / 2019
Movie / 2024
Movie / 1997
Movie / 1994
Movie / 2017
Movie / 2013