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EUA, 1979. En su momento no la aprecié en su justa medida. Saint Jack, el rey de Singapur (Saint Jack, Peter Bogdanovich, 1979) es un hermoso y sereno relato acerca de la frustración, la desilusión, el fracaso y los sueños incumplidos. También sobre la rectitud y los principios. Además de una calurosa historia de amistad entre dos hombres ...
Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States is materialized when he is offered the opportunity by the CIA to run a brothel for the R&R activities of U.S. soldiers on leave in Singapore.
Saint Jack. Jack Flowers, an American hustler in early 1970s Singapore, dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel and returning to the States to lead a life of luxury. IMDb 7.0 1 h 54 min 1979. X-Ray R. Drama. Freevee (with ads) More purchase options. Watchlist. Like. Not for me. Share. Related ...
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Saint Jack is a film short on plot, but long on character study, at least for the title character Jack Flowers, patron saint of the working girl in Singapore. Ben Gazzara plays the title role and if you can imagine Humphrey Bogart at his most existential running a brothel, than you've got Gazzara's character.
Saint Jack is probably Bogdanovich’s loosest film, the one that feels most Cassavetian in execution, in which classical plotting, let alone the kind of manic screwballishness that characterizes the director’s comedies, is entirely absent in favor of a low-key, episodic character portrait embedded in a gritty, exotic, and relatively little-filmed locale.
3 de dic. de 2017 · Saint Jack is a film about Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara), an American washed up on the shores of Singapore and a pimp of local girls who just happens to be the most moral person in all the land. His presence in the more famous Singaporean red-light districts such as Bugis Street and Chinatown, mingling and associating with the prostitutes and transvestites so common in Singapore’s heyday, draws ...
