Bananas [Blu-ray]

Director: Woody Allen Woody Allen

Overview

The sharply satirical, uneven and often bizarre Bananas comes from Woody Allen's zany period and tells the story of New York nebbish Fielding Mellish (Allen) who ends up El Presidente of San Marcos, a tiny war-torn Central American banana republic after he falls in love with a radical political activist (Louise Lasser) who is more interested in making revolution than love.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/20/2022
UPC:	0850035985236
Original Release:	1971
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Sandpiper Pictures
Language:	English
Time:	1:21:00

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Woody Allen	Fielding Mellish
Louise Lasser	Nancy
Jacobo Morales	Esposito
Natividad Abascal	Yolanda
David Ortiz	Sanchez
Rene Enriquez	Diaz
Jack Axelrod	Arroyo
Howard Cosell	Himself
Roger Grimsby	Himself
Don Dunphy	Himself
Charlotte Rae	Mrs. Mellish
Stanley Ackerman	Dr. Mellish
Dan Frazer	Priest
Martha Greenhouse	Dr. Feigen
Conrad Bain	Semple
Tigre Perez	Perez
Baron DeBeer	Ambassador
Arthur Hughes	Judge
John Braden	Prosecutor
Dorothi Fox	J. Edgar Hoover
Dagne Crane	Sharon
Axel Anderson	Tortured Man
Ted Chapman	Policeman
Ed Barth	Paul,Actor
Nicholas Saunders	Douglas
Eulogio Peraza	Interpreter
Norman Evans	Senator
Marilyn Hengst	Norma
Ed Crowley	FBI Security
Beeson Carroll	FBI Security
Allen Garfield	Man on Cross
Princess Fatosh	Snake Bite Lady
Dick Callinan	Cigarette Commercial Man
Sylvester Stallone	Subway Thug
Robert O'Connell	FBI Man No.1,Actor
Robert Dudley	FBI Man No.2
Miguel Ángel Suárez	Luis
Carlos Montalbán	General Emilio M. Vargas
David Oniz	Sanchez
Hy Anzell	Patient In Operating Room
Carlos Montalban	Actor
Danny DeVito	Actor
Yomo Toro	Composer
Marvin Hamlisch	Composer

Technical Credits

Woody Allen

Mickey Rose

Woody Allen	Director,Screenwriter
Jack Grossberg	Producer
Charles H. Joffe	Executive Producer,Producer
Mickey Rose	Screenwriter
Jack Rollins	Producer
Vicky Hernández	Casting
Ralph Rosenblum	Producer
James Sabat	Sound/Sound Designer
Nathan Boxer	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

A prime example of the "earlier, funnier" Woody Allen films, Bananas is a consistently off-kilter story about an American product tester (Allen) who ends up as a Latin American dictator. It's an anarchic take on 1960s-style revolutionaries. The satire is light, but the film is packed with trademark Allen one-liners, slapstick, and sight gags, and Allen the actor is in top form. Some of the material became quickly dated, but Bananas is an excellent showcase for the often-overlooked comic talents of the first of Allen's three leading actress/girlfriends, Louise Lasser. Marvin Hamlisch's witty score is a great contribution to the success of the film. Asked why the film was called Bananas, Allen told an interviewer: "Because there are no bananas in it." Building on the cult success of the extremely silly Take the Money and Run two years earlier, Bananas marked the real start of Allen's remarkable run of comic successes in the 1970s.