Chafed Elbows
This riot of bad taste was a breakthrough for Downey, thanks to rave notices. Visualized largely in still 35 mm photographs, it follows a shiftless downtown Manhattanite having his “annual November breakdown” as he wanders from one odd job to the next, coming across all sorts of sordid types, from a desperate independent filmmaker to a destitute dirty-sock sniffer. And there is something to offend everyone: incest, murder, bad pop songs, you name it.
Chafed Elbows was preserved by Anthology Film Archives, with funding provided by The Film Foundation.
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Collector's Set
Cast
- George Morgan
- Walter Dinsmore
- Elsie Downey
- All women's roles
Credits
- Director
- Robert Downey Sr.
- Producer
- Robert Downey Sr.
- Screenplay
- Robert Downey Sr.
- Cinematography
- William Waering
- Cinematography
- Stan Warnow
- Cinematography
- Robert Prince
- Editors
- Robert Prince
- Editors
- Robert Soukis
- Track analysis and film editing
- Fred von Bernewitz
- Music
- Tom O'Horgan
- Special hindrance
- New York City Police Department
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