Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979)

User Rating:

8.1/10   

Director:

Jeff Margolis

Writer:

Richard Pryor (writer)
(more)

Release Date:

January 1979 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Documentary

Plot Keywords:

Performer Name In Title | Concert Film | Racial Slur | Punctuation In Title | Stand Up Comedy

Cast

Richard Pryor	...	Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Patti LaBelle	...	Herself (scenes deleted)
Jennifer Lee	...	Herself (uncredited)

Directed by
Jeff Margolis

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Paul Mooney		uncredited
Richard Pryor		writer

Produced by
Saul Barnett	....	executive producer
Steve Blauner	....	producer
Jeffrey Chernov	....	associate producer
Hillard Elkins	....	producer
Del Jack	....	producer
William Sargent Jr.	....	producer
William Sargent	....	producer
J. Mark Travis	....	producer

Cinematography by
Tom D. Schamp		(as Tom Schamp)

Film Editing by
Daniel J. Johnson		(co-editor)
Ken Johnson
Steve Livingston

Sound Department
Biff Dawes	....	sound mixer
Daniel J. Johnson	....	Co-Editor

Camera and Electrical Department
Tom Tcimpidis	....	video controller

Other crew
Don E. Branker	....	live event production
Marcelle Garfield	....	executive production assistant
Carl Hanseman	....	technical production supervisor
Bill Hopkins	....	production coordinator
Thomas McConnell	....	associate director
Bill Povonda	....	production coordinator
Richard Pryor	....	executive album producer
Rashon	....	road manager
Rima Risziewicz	....	assistant to producers

Production Companies

• Elkins Entertainment
• SEE Theater Network

Distributors

• Special Event Entertainment (1979) (USA) (theatrical)
• Wm. Lange & Associates (1979) (USA: Midwest) (theatrical)
• Home Box Office Home Video (HBO) (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• MPI Home Video (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• Comedy Central (2007) (Netherlands) (TV)

Other Companies

• Compact Video Systems Inc.  post-production sound facilities
• Compact Video Systems Inc.  video editing facilities
• Damask Productions Inc.  editorial services
• Heider Scoring Service  sound recording facilities (as Heider Recording Services)
• Hill Production Services  camera facilities
• Howard A. Anderson Company  post production facilities

Also Known As:

Another Pryor (USA) (alternative title)
Richard Pryor Is Back Live in Concert (USA) (reissue title)

Runtime:

78 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Not Rated | Iceland:L | Australia:MA (DVD rating) | UK:18 (DVD rating)

Filming Locations:

Terrace Theatre - 300 E. Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach, California, USA

Company:

Elkins Entertainment

Trivia:

Huey P. Newton was sitting in the audience. Richard Pryor announces this fact to the audience but Newton is not actually shown in the film.

Movie Connections:

Featured in A Huey P. Newton Story (2001) (TV)

A wonderful comic!

Richard Pryor is without a doubt one of the best stand-up performers to ever grab a mike, because he breaks the performance wall, and just has a conversation with the audience, which is rare for a comic to do. He talks to the audience, and involves them in the show, and the things he talks about on stage are not really jokes, but his retelling of certain life events that he has had, and you get the feeling that you would be hearing the same thing if you were just sitting alone with him in a room, and that is what makes his comedy so good, that conversational quality. No other comic that I can think of has done that with such a level of success that Pryor did...he was a real natural.

As far as profanity goes, Pryor doesn't use it to shock, he just talks that way naturally, and so the cursing doesn't stick out that much. Still, if you're easily offended by such language, then avoid it, but you are only robbing yourself of seeing a legend working his magic.