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1977 0.0 (0 votes) 0h 16m
Genres
Documentary

Jingle Bells: RFK - 1964

Overview

Surrounded by his children, his wife Ethel, and Sammy Davis, Jr., RFK visits schoolchildren around the city, and is every bit the good patriarch and dutiful public servant. But it’s the films’ fleeting, in-between, moments where Pennebaker most precisely hits the mark, offering reflection on the possibilities that Robert Kennedy’s all too brief life foreclosed. Set against the pageantry of a long ago Christmas, the film speaks to tragic contingencies of history lying far beyond the ken of politics that continue to circumscribe the tortured destiny of our country.

Key Crew

Producer: D. A. Pennebaker

Director: D. A. Pennebaker

Director of Photography: Michael Blackwood, D. A. Pennebaker

Top Cast

Robert F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy

Ethel Kennedy

Sammy Davis Jr.
Sammy Davis Jr.

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