Saint Jack (1979)
3.6 of 5 from 50 ratings
1h 52min
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- Synopsis:
Easygoing expatriate Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara) makes his living in early-1970's Singapore legally and illegally looking after the needs of American and British businessmen, such as the mild-mannered William Leigh (Denholm Elliott). With his gift for putting clients and girls at ease, Jack opens a successful brothel, but pressure from local mobsters soon puts him out of business. Ever the survivor, he starts working for the shady, Cuban-cigar-smoking Eddie Schuman (Peter Bogdanovich) as a pimp for GI's on breaks from Vietnam. But Jack's conscience starts to dog him when Schuman hires him to take compromising pictures of a visiting Senator (George Lazenby). 'Saint Jack' offers a pimp with a heart of gold, who is less an ugly colonial American abroad than an outsider trying to make the best of a bad situation. - Actors:
- Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers, Joss Ackland, Rodney Bewes, Mark Kingston, Lisa Lu, Monika Subramaniam, Judy Lim, George Lazenby, Peter Bogdanovich, Joseph Noël, Kian Bee Ong, Yan Meng Tan, Andrew Chua, Peter Pang, Ronald Ng, Teow Keng Seow, Ken Wolinski, Peter Tay
- Directors:
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Producers:
- Roger Corman
- Writers:
- Howard Sackler, Paul Theroux, Peter Bogdanovich
- Others:
- Denholm Elliott
- Genres:
- Drama
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