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About | Sammy-Gate. Noel Lawrence [director, writer] Noel...
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Jan 24, 2020 · Sammy-Gate: Directed by Noel Lawrence. With Richard Beatty, Phil Proctor, Peter Henry Schroeder, Durga McBroom. A dark political satire about how Sammy Davis, Jr. caused Watergate.
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Nov 7, 2019 · Sammy-Gate – trailer | IFFR 2020. In this deranged psychedelic trip, Sammy Davis Jr uncovers a right-wing conspiracy against black activism while working for president Nixon.-----------------...
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Jul 6, 2020 · American filmmaker, curator and the founder of Thee J.X. Williams Archive, Noel Lawrence dedicated eight years working on the project Sammy-Gate, alongside writer Darius James, an expert on...
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About | Sammy-Gate. Noel Lawrence [director, writer] Noel Lawrence makes, curates, distributes, and writes about film. As alter ego J.X. Williams, Lawrence produced a body of audiovisual work that critiqued institutions and historical discourses of cinema. His films have been showcased at The Louvre, IFFR, Slamdance, and Thessaloniki.
Sammy-Gate Trailer. Equal parts Dr. Strangelove, Putney Swope, and Network, Sammy-Gate takes you on a psychedelic trip into the 1970s polyester heart of darkness. On a USO tour of Vietnam, Sammy Davis Jr. stumbles upon a CIA-sponsored plot to smuggle heroin into the United States.
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This motley mix of fiction and altered archive images has a lead role for celebrity Sammy Davis Jr, who is sent to Vietnam by president Nixon to find out why so many American GIs are becoming heroin addicts.
