The Projectionist

Chuck McCann, the master of the bowl haircut and the stupid grin, takes you on an 88 minute tour of the lonely life of a projectionist who has no friends. Wow, it takes about five minutes in to realize this is going to be a long haul. Like the three hour tour with Gilligan.

Chuck McCann manages to make anything less funny, and more boring than it needs to be. He sits in an empty theatre, night after night, imagining himself as some horribly inept superhero. McCann used to do children's TV shows, and so he merges his kiddie show antics with the half-baked projectionist's life.

The only good thing about this steaming pile is Rodney Dangerfield making his movie debut many years before he became famous. Try to find his highlights from this movie on youtube if you are a fan of Rodney Dangerfield, and skip the depressing and painful viewing of Chuck as the imaginary hero, Super-Chump.

A few years later (1975) he did a TV series with Bob Denver called "Far Out Space Nuts" which was canceled after 15 episodes were filmed, but most of them were never seen except on bootleg video.