Sammy-Gate (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.
- Released
- 2020-01-23
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Noel Lawrence
- TMDB rating
- 5.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Richard Beatty as Sammy Davis Jr.
- Phil Proctor as Richard Nixon
- Peter Henry Schroeder as Santo Trafficante
- Durga McBroom as Talk Show Host
- Reginald M. Jernigan Jr. as Night Tripper
- Freddy Andreiuci as Matty Madonna
- Theo Breaux as PFC Garfield Mosley
- Luis Fernandez-Gil as Bebe Rebozo
- Alison Kohlhardt as Willow
- Michael Patrick McGill as Deep Throat
- Richard Tanner as Robert Maheu
- Daniel Patrick Carbone as Howard Hughes