Long before O'Reilly and Beck, Morton Downey, Jr., was tearing up the talk-show format with his divisive populism. Between the fistfights, rabid audience, and Mort's cigarette smoke always "in your face," The Morton Downey Jr. Show was billed as "3-D television," "rock and roll without the music." Évocateur meditates on the hysteria that ended the '80s and ultimately its most notorious agitator.
Morton Downey, Jr.
as Self (archive footage)
Gloria Allred
as Self
Michele Bachmann
as Self
Glenn Beck
as Self
Richard Bey
as Self
Chris Elliott
as Self
Al Sharpton
as Self
Larry King
as Self (archive footage)
Lloyd Kaufman
as Self (archive footage)
Wally George
as Self (archive footage)
