My Favorite Year | movie | 1982 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, g | dG1fVTVRQ29VS1dkVTA

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00:00It was 1954, television was live, and Benji Stone landed the job of his dreams as a TV

00:25comedy writer. It was the year Hollywood's greatest hero swashbuckled his way onto live

00:34TV and into Benji's life. Swan better be at every rehearsal sober, or it's your neck.

00:46They've asked me to stay with you and help you over some of the rough spots. Like showing up?

00:51That's one. Another is not passing out. What sort of heroic idiot am I this time?

00:58A musketeer idiot. I read that on the airplane. Very funny. Very good.

01:03I wrote that. Did you? Bravo, Stone. Bravo.

01:08What a bonus thought, pal. We'll be two for dinner. Oh no, Mr. Swan, this is exactly the

01:15way it started last time. And you know, I'm supposed to watch you.

01:23Good. Watch this. Now all we have to do is to get from here to there. I'm going down now.

01:32I'll have a light. Five minutes to air. This is places, people. Sure, this is live television. Live.

01:46Five. What are you doing? Drinking and leaving. Take you.

01:57So, I'm afraid. I'm flesh and blood. Life size no larger. I'm not that silly damn hero I never was.

02:09To me you were. You couldn't have convinced me unless you had that courage. Nobody's that good an actor.

02:16I'm not an actor. I'm a movie star. Alan Swan may have been the worst person to look up to.

02:31But it was the best time Benji ever had.

02:37It's 30 years for this.

02:43My favorite year.