The King of Comedy

Martin Scorsese (director)
Paul D. Zimmerman (screenwriter)
Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, and Diahnne Abbott (starring)

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1982. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1983 film.

In this black-comedy a delusional aspiring comic, Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro), stalks and eventually kidnaps his idol, a late night talk show host Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis). The fifth film collaboration between De Niro and Scorsese, preceded by the classic "Raging Bull."

Set in New York, shot on location in New Jersey and New York.

10 x 8 inches. Fine.


[Book #139511]