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Release Date:
January 26, 1975
Original Title:
Cracked Actor
Alternate Titles:
Cracked Actor - A Film about David Bowie
The Collector
Genres:
Documentary | Music
Production Companies:
BBC
Production Countries:
United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 53
The documentary depicts Bowie on tour in Los Angeles, using a mixture of vérité sequences filmed in limousines and hotels, and concert footage. Most of the concert footage was taken from a show at the Los Angeles Universal Amphitheatre on 2 September 1974 (Also featured are excerpts from D.A. Pennebaker's concert film shot at London's Hammersmith Odeon on 3 July 1973). Cracked Actor is notable for being a source for footage of Bowie's ambitious Diamond Dogs tour, and also for showing Bowie's fragile mental state during this period.
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Associate Producer:
Carol Bell
Director:
Alan Yentob
Director of Photography:
David Myers
Michael D. Murphy
Editor:
Tony Woollard
Producer:
Alan Yentob
Sound:
Pat Darrin
Thanks:
D. A. Pennebaker
Writer:
Alan Yentob
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