After watching Robot Monster, decided to watch another Phil Tucker film released around the same time called Dance Hall Racket starring Lenny Bruce.
I don't know about Lenny Bruce. His delivery must have been amazing because nothing he ever said was funny.
I saw Dustin Hoffman play him in a movie. He was outraged that they fired a gay teacher, because, he said, we NEED good teachers. Just because the guy was gay doesn't mean he was a good teacher. Maybe the school had no problem with gay teachers but used it as an excuse to get rid of an abusive incompetent.
I also remember a scene where Lenny Bruce buys a new Cadillac with money he got from an insurance payout after a car accident. At the time I thought it was a sign of bad taste. My parents always frowned on garish luxury cars. Now I kind of like them. Still, I would have bought a used car and tried to live as long as I could on what was left.
Then there was Lenny Bruce's pioneering use of the N-word. He thought that saying it repeatedly in front of a small, white nightclub audience would inure people to it so that it would no longer be hurtful to Black people. I don't think it worked.
I'm afraid that Dance Hall Racket was no Robot Monster. Filmed in master shots.
Lenny Bruce is a bouncer in a dance hall who murders a guy. It threatens to expose the dance hall as a front for a diamond smuggling operation. With Timothy Farrell. Two women are fighting in the movie as I write this.
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