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80Despite his obvious infirmities, Reilly infuses his performance with a great deal of energy -- frequently shouting his lines for emphasis -- and, of course, perfect comic timing. It's fortunate that we have this filmed record -- directed by Barry Poltermann and Frank Anderson -- of a memorable solo performance by a true show business original.
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80Check out The Life of Reilly, for a real-life example of carpe diem energy too pure and unrefined to be silenced by discrimination or negative family vibes.
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80With equal measures of prickly wit, gleeful pride and bemused gratitude, Charles Nelson Reilly looks back at his life, and invites his audience to share the view, in this thoroughly engaging filmization of his one-man stage show.
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75Director Barry Poltermann's sweet little evocation of a show business career captures Reilly at "the twilight of an extraordinary life," in Reilly's words.
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75If you think of Reilly as little more than a camp icon, you've got a lot to learn.
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75Best remembered as the most flamboyant of TV's original "Hollywood Squares" - which is really saying something on a panel that included Paul Lynde.
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Both revealing and evasive.
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75By the time Reilly's shaggy life story winds down, it's hard not to wish he'd been your friend, too.
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75This charming, bittersweet 90-minute monologue consists of the actor telling tales of his childhood and early years, when he was an ugly duckling from an uglier family. The anecdotes are bruisingly funny and delivered with clarity and light mockery.
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75A tender tale of semi-triumph.
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75The actor holds the stage with his warm humor and emotionally charged anecdotes.
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75Spellbinding.
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70Charles Nelson Reilly is still alive, dammit, and boy does he have a story to tell.
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70Occasionally you see a documentary and it hits you how much you don't know about someone who was part of your mental landscape.
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70There are the stories of his racist mom, lobotomized aunt, and a TV exec who told him he'd never find work as a homosexual -- and the more charming tale of his Uta Hagen acting class, which yielded nothing but future A-listers (Steve McQueen, Jason Robards, Jack Lemmon and Anne Meara, to name a few).
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Built around "Save It for the Stage," a one-man stage show by Charles Nelson Reilly, a showbiz gadfly and Tony Award-winning theater director.
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70The Life of Reilly pays fitting homage to a man who deserves to be remembered for much more than just trading double-entendres with Brett Somers on "The Match Game."
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70It's a funny and frequently affecting reminiscence from a man whose TV antics obscured a long, respectable career as a stage actor and director.
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67Reilly, in his 70s, takes us through his hilariously awful childhood: Eugene O'Neill as toxic high camp.
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