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.
Directed byNoel Lawrence
Written byDarius James, Noel Lawrence
CountryUSA
On screen
Richard Beatty
Phil Proctor
Peter Henry Schroeder
Durga McBroom