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.
Director: Jeremy Newberger
Budget
$300,000
Morton Downey, Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Gloria Allred
Self
Michele Bachmann
Self
Glenn Beck
Self
Richard Bey
Self
Chris Elliott
Self
Al Sharpton
Self
Larry King
Self (archive footage)