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Mickey One is a 1965 American neo noir crime film starring Warren Beatty and directed by Arthur Penn from a script by Alan Surgal.
Mickey One: Directed by Arthur Penn. With Warren Beatty, Alexandra Stewart, Hurd Hatfield, Franchot Tone. After the mob tries to kill him for an unknown reason, a comedian steals the identity of a homeless man and goes on the run.
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- Crime, Drama
- Arthur Penn
- 1965-09-27
Stand-up comic Mickey One (Warren Beatty) is fearful that the gambling debts he amassed have made him a marked man in the Detroit clubs that he frequents. Assuming a false identity,...
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- Crime, Drama
- Arthur Penn
Oct 6, 2015 · Mickey One. #1 film at the US box office, October 1-7, 1965. The rise of television in the late ’50s and early ’60s spelled trouble for the film industry. Faced with declining ticket sales, Hollywood fired back with spectacle, the kind that would outdo anything on a 13” black-and-white screen: lavish Technicolor musicals, 3D experiments ...
While Mickey One does have its share of pretentious and obtuse moments - a surreal sequence in a junkyard where Mickey is chased and threatened by salvage forklifts and garbage trucks, a comic, speeded-up clean-up of his grubby, rented room a la Keystone Cops, a street brawl where he is attacked and beaten by an odd assortment of penny arcade ...
- Arthur Penn, Jim Henderling, Russell Saunders
- Warren Beatty
Mickey One. 1965 · 1 hr 33 min. TV-14. Drama · Crime. A stand-up comic with gambling debts runs away to Chicago to escape the mob, but his yearning to get back on stage may compromise his new identity.
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A young, nameless nightclub comedian (Warren Beatty) living in Detroit lives extravagantly. He has a tryst with a mysterious young woman (Donna Michelle) and accumulates a number of large gambling debts.
