What Makes Sammy Run?

2014· Biography

Equal parts "Dr. Strangelove," "Zelig," and "Network," "What Makes Sammy Run?" 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. Through comic ineptitude mixed with noble intentions, Davis triggers a chain of bizarre missteps by the FBI, the Mafia, and the Nixon administration that result in the Watergate scandal.

Cast: Richard Beatty, Phil Proctor, Peter Henry Schroeder, Durga McBroom

Director: Noel Lawrence