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Harry Hurwitz (writer)
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A projectionist bored with his everyday life begins fantasizing about his being one of the superheroes he sees in the movies he shows. | add synopsis
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Comedian Rodney Dangerfield Dies at 82
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(From IMDb News. 6 October 2004)
Comedian Rodney Dangerfield Dies at 82
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Chuck McCann | ... | Projectionist / Captain Flash | |
| Ina Balin | ... | The Girl | |
| Rodney Dangerfield | ... | Renaldi / The Bat | |
| Jára Kohout | ... | Candy Man / Scientist | |
| Harry Hurwitz | ... | Friendly Usher | |
| Mike Gentry | ... | Usher / Henchman (as Michael Gentry) | |
| Lucky Kargo | ... | Usher / Henchman | |
| David Holliday | ... | Fat Man / Bat's Henchman | |
| Sam Stewart | ... | Usher / Henchman | |
| Alex Stevens | ... | Usher / Henchman | |
| Robert Lee | ... | Usher / Henchman | |
| Stephen Philips | ... | Minister | |
| Morocco | ... | Belly Dancer | |
| Clara Rosenthal | ... | Crazy Lady | |
| Jacqueline Glenn | ... | Nude on Bearskin |
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88 min
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First film for Rodney Dangerfield.
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References The Pink Jungle (1968)
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There have been movies before and after The Projectionist that tear down film's equivalent of Theatre's fourth wall by lifting the barrier between the movie and the real world. Buster Keaton did it most brilliantly in Sherlock Jr. (1924, 44 mins., also featuring a projectionist), and Woody Allen pulled off a reversal (character steps out of the screen) in The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985). Steve Martin duked it out with Cagney and others in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982). The Projectionist is an amusing and annoying combination of a sweet schlub played by Chuck McCann, very reminiscent of John Candy, Rodney Dangerfield's film debut as a dictatorial movie theatre manager given to delivering incredible dressing-down speeches at his hapless ushers (shades of Full Metal Jacket), a nostalgic look at Times Square before it became "Times Square", and a melding of our hero with his screen idols, including his eye-popping drop-in at Rick's Cafe Americain. So what's to be annoyed at? A running super-hero theme is weak, and once you realize it will return again and again it's stomach tightening time while you anticipate the enjoyable sequences being interrupted by this underwritten motif. But without question The Projectionist is not to be missed in a time when imagination has been sucked out of Hollywood. And so I appreciated this film last night even more than when I saw it in a theatre 31 years ago, not excluding a hilarious trailer for a faux end-of-the-world flick that's a little too predictive of 9/11 for comfort.