BANANAS (WIDESCREEN/FULL SCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1971
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: Woody Allen's second film as a director, co-writer and star takes parody to the extreme with a brilliant send-up of everything from relationships to dictatorships. An early example of what allen called his 'slapdash' approach to comedy, Bananas' broad, fast humor and rapid-fire witticisms form a dazzling kaleidascope of 'inspired ingenuity and comic artistry' (Look Magazine).; When bumbling product-tester Fielding Mellish (Allen) is jilted by his girlfriend, Nancy (Louise Lasser), he heads to the tiny republic of San Marcos for a vacation...only to become kidnapped by rebels! Once the band of rebeles seize power, their leader goes crazy, and they replace him with Mellish, thinking he can save the country. But when Mellish is nabbed by the FBI, he is put on trial for subversion and in a side-splitting courtroom showdown - including the most hilarious self-cross examination ever - Woody Allen proves beyond a doubt that he is not only our most gifted satirist...he's a master comiv artist.
• Cast: Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalbán, Nati Abascal, Jacobo Morales, Miguel Ángel Suárez, David Ortiz, René Enríquez, Jack Axelrod, Howard Cosell, Roger Grimsby, Don Dunphy, Charlotte Rae, Stanley Ackerman, Dan Frazer, Martha Greenhouse, Axel Anderson, Tigre Pérez, Baron De Beer, Arthur Hughes, John Braden, Ted Chapman, Dorothi Fox, Dagne Crane, Eddie Barth, Nicholas Saunders, Conrad Bain, Eulogio Peraza, Norman Evans, Bob O'Connell, Robert Dudley, Marilyn Hengst, Ed Crowley, Beeson Carroll, Allen Garfield, Princess Fatosh, Dick Callinan, Hy Anzell, Anthony Caso, Mary Jo Catlett, Danny DeVito, Ines Hellendall, Sylvester Stallone, Mickey Rose
• Director: Woody Allen
• Runtime: 1:22
• Company: Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment, United Artists
• Media Format: Movie