Sammy-Gate (2020) — drama film. Directed by Noel Lawrence. Starring Richard Beatty, Phil Proctor, Peter Henry Schroeder, Durga McBroom. This page maps 10 characters and 11 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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A dark political satire about how Sammy Davis Jr. inadvertently caused the Watergate scandal
Drama · 5/10 · 2020
A dark political satire about how Sammy Davis, Jr. caused Watergate. Equal parts "Dr. Strangelove," "Zelig," and "Network," "Sammy-Gate" 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.
