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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.
Status
Released
Budget
$300,000
Morton Downey, Jr.
Self (archive footage)

Gloria Allred
Self

Michele Bachmann
Self

Glenn Beck
Self
Richard Bey
Self

Chris Elliott
Self

Al Sharpton
Self

Larry King
Self (archive footage)