Richard Pryor Live On The Sunset Strip

A follow-up to the enormously successful RICHARD PRYOR LIVE IN CONCERT (1979), RICHARD PRYOR LIVE ON THE SUNSET STRIP is a somewhat lesser but still worthwhile showcase for an entertainer for whom the word "comic" seems too limiting.

The film is a record of two shows by Pryor at the Hollywood Palladium in late 1981, his first since June 1980 when he was nearly burned to death. (While the incident was initially described as having been caused when Pryor struck a match near a glass of high-proof rum, here and for years afterwards he claimed that it was an accident caused when he was "freebasing" cocaine. It wasn't until years later that Pryor admitted he had tried...