Bananas (1971)
- Starring:
- Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, (more)
- Director(s):
- Woody Allen
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG13
- Category:
- Comedy
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One of Woody Allen's earlier, more slapstick-oriented efforts, Bananas tells the story of Fielding Mellish (Allen), a neurotic New Yorker who follows the object of his affections, Nancy (Louise Lasser), to the fictional Central American country of San Marcos, where she is involved in a revolution. Nancy wants nothing to do with Fielding, but he soon becomes a guest of the country's dictator (Carlos Montalban), before accidentally becoming the leader of San Marcos himself. Fielding is eventually shipped back to the US and tried as a subversive, but being that this is a comedy, and an especially light one at that, everything works out in the end. A far cry from Allen's later, more somber films, Bananas still works as an often hilarious amalgam of sight gags, one-liners, and bizarre asides. ~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 82 mins
Complete Cast:
- Woody Allen - Fielding Mellish
- Carlos Montalban - General Emilio M. Vargas
- Jacobo Morales - Esposito
- Stanley Ackerman - Dr. Mellish
- Hy Anzell - Patient In Operating Room
- Conrad Bain - Semple
- Beeson Carroll - FBI Security
- Howard Cosell - Himself
- Ed Crowley - FBI Security
- Robert Dudley - FBI Man#2
- Tigre Perez - Perez
- David Ortiz - Sanchez
- Baron DeBeer - Ambassador
- Dick Callinan
- Sylvester Stallone - Subway Hood
- Princess Fatosh - Snakebite Lady
- Dan Frazer - Priest
- Martha Greenhouse - Dr. Feigen
- Arthur Hughes - Judge
- David Oniz - Sanchez
- Louise Lasser - Nancy
- Natividad Abascal - Yolanda
- Miguel Angel Suarez - Luis
- Axel Anderson - Tortured Man
- Jack Axelrod - Arroyo
- Eddie Barth
- Ted Chapman - Policeman
- Dagne Crane - Sharon
- Don Dunphy - Himself
- Nicholas Saunders
- Eulogio Peraza
- Marilyn Hengst
- Norman Evans
- John Braden - Prosecutor
- Rene Enriquez - Diaz
- Dorothi Fox - J. Edgar Hoover
- Allen Garfield - Man on Cross
- Roger Grimsby - Himself
- Bob O'Connell
- Charlotte Rae - Mrs. Mellish
- Director(s):
- Woody Allen
- Writer(s):
- Woody Allen, Mickey Rose
- Producer(s):
- Jack Grossberg, Ralph Rosenblum, Charles H. Joffe
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG13(Sexual Situations, Adult Humor, Questionable for Children, Adult Language)
- Categories:
- Comedy
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